On September 16, the activist from Karakalpakstan Raisa Khudaibergenova was detained in the suburbs of Almaty. According to Vitaly Ponomarev (an expert at the Human Rights Center “Memorial”), the activist was detained by three people in civilian clothes. One of them introduced himself as Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan Aidos Rasulov, […]
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 […]
The authorities are intensively persuading publicly significant participants in the July protests, forcing them to repent and fully admit their guilt before the state. According to an ACCA source in Karakalpakstan, there has been moral pressure on their relatives for two months. “Until this succeeds, the propaganda campaign to release some of the protesters from […]
Human rights organizations have prepared a report on the situation of children and mothers in prison for publication at the 91st session of the UN Committee on the rights of child. Representatives of the initiative groups “Open Line” and “House of Human Rights” from Uzbekistan, the Association “Human Rights in Central Asia” (AHRCA, France) with […]
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 activists called on the US agency to use all its powers to prevent the Swiss Federal Office of Justice from returning the stolen assets to Gulnara Karimova. They believe the daughter of former Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov illegally obtained them through a multi-million dollar bribe scheme with international telecommunications companies. Karimova was given over […]
On August 19, the Mirabad District Court for Criminal Cases in Tashkent found school psychologist Azad Gasanov guilty. Since the end of April, numerous cases of his harassment of students in 3d and 5th grades have been considered at court hearings. He committed a crime under part 1 Article 129 of the Criminal Code (“Indecent […]
In Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, police officers are raiding private houses and apartments with the participation of representatives of citizens’ gatherings (mahallas) in connection with the upcoming celebration of the Independence Day of Uzbekistan. Residents of the capital are warned about the danger of holding rallies on September 1. In conversations with residents, law […]
The high-profile case of taking a $50,000 bribe by an investigator from the Uchtepa Prosecutor’s Office ended with a court verdict of 13 years in prison. The defendant was found guilty by the Yashnabad District Criminal Court under paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 210 (taking a bribe) of the Criminal Code. He is […]
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