Insults, Slander and Human Rights: Uzbek Bloggers Pay a Heavy Price for Exercising Freedom of Speech
An amendment to Uzbekistan’s criminal code that criminalizes online public insult or slander of...
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Tag: Media freedom
Bobomurod is free, but found guilty …
On May 7 the Tashkent City Criminal Court released journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev, blogger...
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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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Does Mirziyoyev read news from websites which are blocked in Uzbekistan?
President Mirziyoyev has read out to parliamentarians a news article published on the website...
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German Journalist Deported from Uzbekistan
On November 10th the German journalist Edda Schlager, currently residing in Kazakhstan, was...
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Dozens of intellectuals are expelled from the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan
The Expert Council removed 26 writers and poets from the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan because...
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The Absence of Free and Independent Mass Media and the total Destruction of Freedom of Speech in Uzbekistan
A report by the Uzbek Centre of Extreme Journalism on Freedom of Press and Freedom of Speech in...
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Open Letter to Islam Karimov – Journalists Hunger Strike
Open letter to Mr. Islam Karimov President of Uzbekistan Mr. President, On June 27th, 2011,...
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