Starting from 2022, 14 regional ombudsmen will start working in the country. A decree on this was signed by the President of the country, pointing out the main task – ensuring the observance of human rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests, organizing and conducting monitoring of human rights. The adopted document regulates the age of the […]
During the raid on September 3, activists from the initiative group Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan clarified the circumstances of their colleague’s kidnapping, recorded the facts of the use of forced labor and human rights violations. Human rights activists Zainab Tadjibaeva and Elena Urlaeva met with activist Sagandyk Nurimbetov. During the meeting, he said that […]
For eight days, the head of the temporary detention center in Zaamin district of Jizakh region beat and raped the woman under investigation. Having launched an investigation into the initiated criminal case, the local Prosecutor’s Office is trying to ignore the facts of sexual violence and is conducting an investigation under Article 205 (“Abuse of […]
The head of the Human Rights Association of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik” Abdurahmon Tashanov made public the suicide attempt of a 19-year-old prisoner. The Prosecutor General’s Office promptly responded with the information of a pre-investigation check carried out by the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Karshi city, while clarifying that “the information about the initiation of a case […]
70 % of the total number of convicts in closed institutions were vaccinated against COVID-19, 27 thousand doses of vaccine were received in the prisons. This was announced by the Department to human rights defenders from the initiative group “Open line”. The response didn’t specify when and what kind of vaccine was used, how many […]
International Day in support of victims of torture, on June 26, was celebrated by President Mirziyoyev by signing a decree “On additional measures to improve the system for detecting and preventing cases of torture”. The coincidence of the date of the UN and the day of the adoption of the document corresponds to the practice […]
Human rights activists discovered artificial overpricing in a store on the territory of the colony-settlement No. 42 (Tashkent region). This was preceded by the liquidation of three sales outlets outside the penitentiary. It’s especially hard for two mothers who have recently given birth to children. As prisoner Stella Aganova told the human rights activist Tatyana […]
The UN Working group on arbitrary detention (UN WGAD) has urged the authorities of Uzbekistan to immediately release 69-year-old Kadyr Yusupov with adequate compensation. Concerned about Yusupov’s continued imprisonment, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human […]
The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA) issued a statement in defense of Alexander Trofimov, a 29-year-old father of two children and registered with a disability. On May 6 and 7, 2021, he was tortured and ill-treated by operational officers of the Chilanzar District Department […]
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