On September 13, unknown people detained Karakalpak activists. This was reported by the Information center “Shirak”, based outside of Uzbekistan. Several men in civilian clothes are said to have taken Zhankeldi Zhaksymbetov, leader of the Azatlyk Party of Karakalpakstan, out of a rented apartment in Almaty. “We don’t know the location of Zhankeldi Zhaksymbetov. Activists […]
For five hours on August 30, the country’s authorities held the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) program coordinator in Europe and Central Asia, Gulnoza Said, at the airport. An employee of the organization was initially denied entry and ordered to remain in the transit zone until the departure of the flight to New York, scheduled […]
The former head of the Rakatboshi Citizens’ Assembly (Tashkent) threatened to kill the leader of the Open Line group, Tatyana Dovlatova after a criminal case was opened against him. The human rights activist sought this for several years after she convicted Sattor Rakhimov of misappropriation of budgetary funds and illegal use of real estate on […]
The number of repressed journalists in Karakalpakstan is growing as information from the region comes in. At the moment, it is known about five detained or arrested media workers. There is no information about the fate of Bakhtiyar Kadirbergenov and Mustafa Tursinbaev, journalists of the newspaper El Khyzmetinde (In the Service of the People), who […]
On June 26, Karakalpak blogger Kural Rametov published critical comments on the amendments to the Constitution of Uzbekistan on social networks. Shortly thereafter, law enforcement officers detained him at his workplace. According to non-governmental sources of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, France), the Interior Ministry officers tortured him with electric shocks. […]
Events from June 26 to July 2 culminated in a bloody finale in Nukus when the protests were violently suppressed by special forces soldiers. They were promptly delivered to the capital of Karakalpakstan by military aircraft. Official Tashkent considered local law enforcement officers insufficiently loyal and unprepared for forceful suppression. Groups of young people tried […]
On June 24, 73-year-old journalist and writer Zokir Hasanzoda was detained in Samarkand region. He was taken to the Regional Department of Internal Affairs, but the admission of his lawyer was refused. Relatives reported diabetes and two heart attacks of the detained journalist. In addition, after the detention, the journalist wasn’t fed, which could drastically […]
One of the few independent online media, Asiaterra, was attacked by hooligans, after which the host owner turned off the site. The incident began on June 16 and continues to this day. According to Asiaterra’s editor Aleksey Volosevich, he will be given IP addresses and the number of attackers, but he has no doubt that […]
On June 11, in the presence of numerous witnesses, journalists of the Uzbek TV channel Sevimli were attacked. It was first reported on Zamon news program, but then the post was deleted. The material in Uzbek was downloaded by the victims’ colleagues and spread on the social network; later the details of the incident became […]
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