On May 21, a group of citizens was attacked by four members of the patrol force. The reason was the violation of the supposedly declared curfew, the existence of which was rightly doubted by the victims of the attack. The incident was reported on a social network. “At about 3:30 am, the guests of Samarkand […]
On April 20, the Ombudsman’s press service issued a report on the situation with respect for the rule of law in penitentiary institutions. It appeared after the ACCA’s publication “Uzbekistan: convicts are beaten and forced to give false testimony” on April 19. In it and in previous articles, the ACCA human rights portal emphasized the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
On September 13, a resident of Andijan was beaten. The investigation was launched after the victim’s statement, his name was not disclosed. The employees of the city department of internal affairs are suspected of the crime. Another Andijan citizen on June 22, 2020, died after being tortured in the department. Because of the traffic accident, […]
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 […]
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