The facts of gross violation of human rights were again revealed by human rights activists. According to available information, convict Shomshod Ashyrbaev is beaten by officers and forced to give false testimony against other convicts. On April 16, human rights activist Klara Sakharova and the leader of the initiative human rights group “Open line” Tatyana […]
The Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan once again confirmed the bad situation with 18 prisoners who received burns of varying severity in a fire. Two from penal colony No.50 in Pskent district of Tashkent region have died, and the survivors still don’t receive qualified medical care, they are completely deprived of social and legal support. […]
On March 11, prisoner Madier Muminov, after numerous bullying, decided to be mutilated in penal colony No. 7 (Tashkent region). He managed to tell his mother, Salima Muminova, about this. She immediately contacted human rights activist Tatyana Dovlatova. It turned out that physical and moral violence is especially characteristic of the guards Olim and Jasur. […]
The Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan spread information about the death of two prisoners. The prisoner Nazirjon Abdullayev told human rights activists about this. On November 29, 2021, in one of the premises where 42 people were staying, there was a gas explosion, the victims of which were Jahon and Batyr (surnames unknown). Nazirjon worked […]
On March 1, employees of the State Security Service conducted a thorough search in the colony-settlement No. 49 (Almalyk city, Tashkent region), revealingly leaving the things of the prisoner Sirozhiddin Bakhodirov all over the place According to him, there were 5-6 Chekists. Formally, all the barracks were checked for the presence of prohibited items, but […]
The National News Agency of Uzbekistan reported in its publication that over the past five years there have been no escapes in penitentiary institutions that can be called prisons. It received this information from the Department for the Execution of Punishments under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In total, there are 54 correctional colonies in […]
A transgender woman Nigina (in her passport – Mirsharif Zakirov), who is being bullied in colony-settlement No. 42, turned to the human rights activists of the Open Line initiative group for help. She is isolated from other prisoners, including from the inmates of the women’s barracks. On January 5, human rights activists Tatyana Dovlatova and […]
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan ruled to rehabilitate 120 people who became victims of the Bolshevik terror in the 1920s and 1930s. The first act of rehabilitation of the repressed was committed in August last year on the eve of Independence Day. Then six criminal cases were considered on the acquittal of 115 people. Some […]
President of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, France) Nadezhda Atayeva reports on another example of the flourishing of corruption in the penitentiary system of Uzbekistan. In colony-settlement No. 31 (Zafarabad district, Jizzakh region), the administration provided comfortable conditions for serving the sentence for Mirzozhon Dzhumaev. He is the son of the […]
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