Another announcement by the Agency for Information and Mass Communications (AIMC) under the Presidential Administration reinforced the efforts of the authorities to control the distribution of content online. According to the online media Daryo.uz, in turn referring to the speech of the director of the Agency Asadjon Khojaev at the 26th plenary session of the […]
On May 23, Murod Makhsudov (chairman of the Tashkent regional branch of the Human Rights Society “Ezgulik”) was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest by the District Court of Mirzo-Ulugbek. This was announced by the head of the organization Abdurahmon Tashanov. At the same time, he noted that the honorary officer of the Ministry […]
By 24 lines, Uzbekistan has improved its position in the ranking of the World Press Freedom Index, rising from 157 (in 2021) to 133. The study was conducted by the international organization “Reporters Without Borders” (RSF). Such an assessment of Uzbekistan is weakly correlated with the conclusions of the RSF. It’s noted that the authorities […]
World Press Freedom Day is celebrated with a variety of repressions against journalists who are practically deprived of legal protection and support. Numerous facts of manipulating the media sphere of Uzbekistan testify to this. Anora Sadikova, editor-in-chief of Rost24, said that she had to remove an article about businessman Jakhongir Usmanov because of threats and […]
Participants of Tashkent’s International Animation Forum announced the requirement to preview films by the State Security Service. According to critic Dina Goder, the festival was controlled from the first day by the National Security Service (an analogue of the Russian FSB). “For the programs to be shown, their curators had to send films in advance […]
A positive decision on the cassation appeal of Anastasia Pavlenko was made by the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court. The deputy chief editor of the regional newspapers “Zarafshon” – “Bulletin of Samarkand” considered the decisions of the courts of Samarkand adopted in early 2022 to be unfair. As ACCA wrote earlier, on February 16, […]
In Termez, the correspondent of Kun.uz Abbos Salaidinov was beaten and detained in a pharmacy on March 18 for demanding a receipt with a QR code. According to the journalist, the owner of the pharmacy threatened him during interrogation to rape his sister. The Prosecutor’s Office of Surkhandarya region didn’t reveal signs of a criminal […]
The Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan has prepared an official report on compliance with the UN Convention against Corruption. However, civil society organizations not affiliated with the state didn’t participate in the work on this document. A side report prepared by the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and Transparency International-R with the support […]
By the decree of the President, an information and library structure “Human rights house” was created at the National Center for human rights. Human rights activist Agzam Turgunov unsuccessfully tries to register an organization under this name. There were 10 registration attempts since 2019. The former political prisoner told an ACCA journalist that he considers […]
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