The Senate at the nineteenth plenary session approved the law On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility. Now the punishment for resistance to a representative of authority or a person performing official and civic duty is being toughened. There will […]
The Uzbek Forum for Human Rights (Germany) published a report “Punitive Psychiatry in Uzbekistan: Stifling the Voices of Activists” describing the use of forced psychiatric detention to suppress human rights defenders and critics of the regime in the country. The report documented cases in which human rights defenders were forcibly placed in psychiatric institutions in […]
For 8 months of 2021, protection orders were issued to 26,105 women. This means that in Uzbekistan, 107 women face various forms of violence every day. Almost 90% experience family harassment. This information became known to the project Nemolchi.uz, the volunteers of which spread the information in social networks. The use of official data from […]
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered that Uzbekistan’s implementation of priority recommendations was insufficient during the last consideration of the state report on compliance with the Convention in December 2019. The Committee considered the response of the National Center for Human Rights of Uzbekistan to questions about the observance of the […]
In the center of Yakkabag district (Kashkadarya region), on July 9, residents of a house to be demolished poured two liters of gasoline over the officers of the Compulsory Enforcement Bureau and tried to set them on fire. The Internal Affairs Directorate of Kashkadarya region reported on the detention of the owner of the house […]
“The Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Supreme Court, tell me, please, can teenagers be raped in Uzbekistan?” Irina Matvienko, the editor-in-chief of the project Nemolchi.uz, addressed this question. The reason was the wave of rape of children in Uzbekistan, during the investigation of which a corruption component can be traced. The […]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office didn’t comment on the detention of an elderly woman Karomat Ashirova in Angren (Tashkent region) for 12 days. On June 21, at least 40 armed special forces officers took part in a military operation against a 70-year-old activist. Her alleged guilt lies in defending the […]
The initiative group “Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan” disseminated information about the beating of an infirm teenager in the men’s boarding school for disabled people “Muruvvat” in Tashkent. A resident of Samarkand, Rano Kuldasheva, turned to the activists for help. She hadn’t seen her son for three months; and when visiting him on June 25, […]
On May 19, a meeting of a human rights activist from the initiative group “Open line” Gulbahor Islamova with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department in Yunusabad district of Tashkent ended with beatings, bites and a scuffle. “In a state of shock, hearing insults in prostitution, the activist even thought to throw herself […]
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