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 […]
Interior Minister Pulat Babadjanov only reprimanded the head of the Department’s press service, Shokhrukh Giesov. As the ACCA previously wrote, he spoke of the victims of torture in law enforcement agencies as “god damned people”, drunkards and hooligans. In an interview with the correspondent of the online media Effect.uz, Giesov said that his words were […]
Nursoat Mukhammadiev, a resident of Nishan district of Kashkadarya region, became another victim after being detained and beaten by the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. His relatives are sure that he died after being beaten on July 26 (International Day against Torture). In recent months, this is the third fatal case for detainees. […]
Another victim of torture after the arrest was Khasan Khushmatov. He died on July 11 after being beaten in the Department of internal affairs of Denau district of Surkhandarya region. Being drunk, he behaved inadequately, and his brother asked for help. A prevention inspector and two of his assistants came to the call. According […]
The death of a person after torture in the District Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Takhiatash of the Republic of Karakalpakstan was reported by the information center “Shirak”, whose employees are in political emigration. Bakhtiyar Dauletmuratov died on July 5. He was ill for a long time after being beaten on May […]
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, […]
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