The overwhelming majority of former political prisoners, who were released, didn’t receive any assistance from the state. This is stated in a special report published by the International Federation of Human Rights in support of the right of political prisoners in Uzbekistan to effective restoration of rights and compensation for damages. According to the authors […]
The Military court of Tashkent covered up the arbitrariness of the authorities by its decision, denying to the relative of Andrei Kubatin a comprehensive recovery of material damage in connection with his unlawful arrest and detention as an accused. The former political prisoner died on October 29 from COVID-19, his elder sister Klara Sakharova filed […]
There was a lot of bad things in my life, and as fate has willed it, I became a human rights defender. This was even before my son was accused and I traveled to the prison camps for five years. During these trips, I had to help the uninformed relatives of the prisoners. It was […]
The screening in Sweden ended the world premiere of the documentary “Only the devil lives without hope”. Its hero was Iskandar Khudaibergenov, who was sentenced to death in Uzbekistan during the repressions. For the first time, viewers saw the film in March 2020. It was in Copenhagen (Denmark). Since then, it has been shown in […]
Former political prisoner Chuyan Mamatkulov won a case against the state, challenging a six-year stay in the prison “Jaslyk”, which has become a symbol of totalitarianism in modern Uzbekistan. On October 9, the Regional Civil court of Kashkadarya ruled to recover $ 5800 from the state. The plaintiff told reporters of Uzbek service of Radio […]
This was announced in a joint statement by human rights organizations – the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC). This decision is aimed “exclusively at suppressing her legitimate human rights activities,” the activist’s foreign colleagues are sure. Active resistance to […]
After the death of Deputy Prime Minister for the Development of Agrarian and Food Spheres Uktam Barnoev, the industry will be supervised by the former khokim of the Fergana region, Shukhrat Ganiev. Now this appointment, in particular, is due to the need for tough management in a difficult period, when the coming cold snap and […]
The Uzbek media considered the issue of returning the assets of the eldest daughter of the former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov for $ 131 million as settled, but everything is not that simple. So far, only a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the governments of Switzerland and Uzbekistan. Legal practice only records […]
The authoritative religious figure Rukhiddin Fakhriddinov was released on parole. He was sentenced in 2006 to 17 years under four articles of the Criminal Code as a repeat offender. Rukhiddin was the last on the list of political prisoners of the 2014 EU resolution. On August 27, he returned home. Together with him, activists Rustam […]
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