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 harassm...
Geneva, May 13, 2017: The United Nations high commissioner for human rights called on President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan on May 10 and 11, 2017, to turn his government’s pledges for reform int...
The Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), Freedom House, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), Report...
On Monday, December 5, Uzbekistan’s Central Elections Committee announced Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a former prime-minister and interim president following the late August death of Islam Karimov, a winner i...
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