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10 september 2015

Steve Swerdlow HRW on Andijan Massacre

Steve Swerdlow of Human Rights Watch speaks on the 10th anniversary of Andijan massacre and the current situation in Uzbekistan at Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission briefing on May 21, 2015, US Congress

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17 april 2016
University in Uzbekistan Threatens to Expel Students over Cotton Harvest, Claims Cotton Picking is Coursework
The dean of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Land Reclamation threatened to invalidate transcripts of students who did ...
9 november 2015
Hodja Nasreddin: It is good that my donkey does not need petrol!
In Uzbekistan petrol shortage has been increasing year by year. Pictures of long queues at petrol stations appeared on ...
11 september 2016
“Autocrat par Excellence”
German media articles reporting on the Uzbek President’s death focused on the controversial legacy of Karimov’s long-term rule with ...
13 september 2017
“I will voluntarily go to pick cotton”
A distinctive feature of the cotton season in 2017 is the full-scale requirement for written confirmation of “voluntary participation ...