In a joint statement, we call on the Uzbekistani authorities to decriminalise homosexuality. The statement is signed by Civil Rights Defenders, Amnesty International, Anti-Discrimination Centre Memori...
On 13 May, Civil Rights Defenders signed a joint statement aimed towards the Uzbekistani authorities. The statement calls for an immediate stop of the harrassments against human rights defenders Agzam...
The Uzbekistani authorities should stop harassing human rights activists, including those recently released from prison, and ensure their safety, Amnesty International, Civil Rights Defenders, Front L...
Washington, DC, May 16, 2018 Uzbekistan’s president’s meeting with President Donald Trump on May 16, 2018, comes at a time when the Uzbek government has taken steps to improve human rights but needs t...
Civil Rights Defenders welcomes today’s court ruling in Tashkent which ordered the release of Bobomurod Abdullayev, journalist with the independent Moscow-based news website Fergana News, and independ...
On Friday, March 2, 2018, Uzbek and international media reported that Uzbekistan freed yet another journalist from prison – Yusuf Ruzimuradov – who spent 19 years in jail, longer than any other report...
12 Human Rights Groups Call for Journalist’s, Others’ Immediate Release (Bishkek, February 12, 2018) – Uzbek authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial, and independent investigation into the all...
On Saturday, 3 February 2018, prison authorities in Uzbekistan’s southern Qarshi region released human rights defender and journalist Dilmurod Saiid. Civil Rights Defenders welcomes his release, and u...
Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the release of human rights defender Azam Farmonov and journalist Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov from Uzbek prisons. Farmonov and Abdurakhmanov were unfairly sentenced in reta...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the Moscow court’s ruling to deport Khudoberdi Nurmatov, an openly gay journalist and an asylum seeker, to Uzbekistan where he previously faced torture and harassment a...
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