Phone Lines Cut, Voices Blocked: How Uzbekistan Silenced Critics During the UNESCO Conference
The 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference is currently taking place in Samarkand. As local...
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School Principal Tortured by Police in Foiled Attempt to Frame Tax Inspector
Police in Fergana’s Furqat district beat school principal Gulirano Kosimova and tried to force a false rape claim against tax chief Kurbonali Abdurakhmonov. Surveillance footage disproved the setup. The district police chief was fired and charged; prosecutors say the case has been sent to court.
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A Dark Cloud: No Space for Freedom of Expression in Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan
Berlin, June 18, 2025 Today, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights publishes the report, “A Dark Cloud: No...
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Uzbek Bloggers and Activists Under Attack – the Cases Mount
As events in Kazakhstan continue to spook neighboring Central Asian countries whose populations...
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Court Orders Continued Detention of Blogger Nafosat Ollashukurova in Psychiatric Hospital
On November 28, the Khorezm Regional Civil Court rejected the request of Nafosat Ollashukurova’s...
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Freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly
Nongovernmental Organizations The government rejected 58 previous UPR recommendations including on...
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US: Focus on Rights as Uzbek Leader Visits. Congress Should Press for Further Reforms
(Washington, DC) – Uzbekistan’s president’s meeting with President Donald Trump on May 16, 2018,...
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Journalist Karimberdi Turamurod: In Uzbekistan, the media trying to become free gets intimidated
Uzbek journalist Karimberdi Turamurod, reported on his Facebook page that he received threats...
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The forensic examination did not confirm that the independent journalist, Bobomurod Abdullayev, was tortured
On March 15, 2018, in Tashkent, the trial against Bobomurod Abdullayev and the three other...
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Uzbekistan: Investigate Torture of Journalist. 12 Human Rights Groups Call for Journalist’s, Others’ Immediate Release
(Bishkek, February 13, 2018) – Uzbek authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial, and...
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“You will not get out of here alive.” Bobomurod Abdullayev told his mother about the torture he was subjected to at the National Security Service pre-trial detention center
Uzbek journalist, Bobomurod Abdullayev, was secretly arrested in Tashkent on September 27, 2017. A...
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Document of Evidence: Public Sector Employees in Samarkand Massively Mobilized to Carry out Reconstruction Works
On July 29, the popular Uzbek news website www.kun.uz published an article written by the...
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