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10.10.2008 18:17 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, in the west of the country, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites.
15.08.2008 19:50 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The four biggest groups representing the US retail and clothing industry are calling on Uzbekistan to end the widespread use of child labour in the harvesting of the country's cotton crop, Financial Times reports.
04.08.2008 20:38 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Representative of the internationally acclaimed Human Rights Watch , Igor Vorontsov who had been awaiting his accreditation received a notification in late July that he was banned in Uzbekistan with no right for future return to the country.
25.07.2008 19:31 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
For the first time in history, the internationally acclaimed Human Rights Watch is having its representative banned in Uzbekistan. This, in spite of EU regulations to cancel sanctions on Uzbekistan only if HRW is accredited.
21.07.2008 20:12 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Unuttered opinion common in the Uzbek law enforcement bodies which claims that following human rights makes it significantly harder to uncover crimes is now openly confirmed by officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
15.07.2008 19:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The worrisome information vacuum created in the aftermath of the series of explosions last week at the Soviet-era arms depot in Kagan, resulting in the evacuation of nearly the entire town, has been exacerbated by the actions of Uzbek authorities to stop any information flowing from the region and s
09.07.2008 10:45 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Last week, Kenneth Roth, the executive director of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch, visited Tashkent. The purpose of the HRW head’s visit was to conduct talks with Uzbek authorities about the possibility of accreditation for the organization’s new representative in Uzb
04.07.2008 13:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A former employee of the capital's Tashkent prison administration, known in Russian as GUIN, has lost almost everything – her house, her health and, recently, her job – all due to her appalling mistreatment by the prison administration, she claims.
19.06.2008 15:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An international campaign continues to protest Uzbekistan’s censorship of internet websites.
10.06.2008 21:37 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Organized by the Institute for Civil Society Studies, Regional Politics Foundation, and the Uzbek National Center for Human Rights, the international seminar, «Freedom of the media in a modern democracy» opened in Tashkent on June 9. The Uzbek principal news agency, UzA , may never have planned to r
29.04.2008 14:41 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan has repealed all death sentences. The law entitled, "On abolition of capital punishment", that came into effect on January 1, 2008, demands that executing prisoners by firing squad be replaced by imposing life sentences or sentences of 20-25 years behind bars. As a re
14.03.2008 14:03 msk China Human Rights
State Council of the People's Republic of China published a report on human rights in the United States in 2007 on March 13, 2008. This document is Beijing's reaction to appearance of the Report on human rights in the world the US Department of State posted on its web site on March 11. The American
28.02.2008 10:43 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Death sentence was officially abolished in Uzbekistan on January 1. 2008. Mothers Against Death Sentence and Torture, an organization Tamara Chikunova founded in 2000, has been fighting capital punishment tooth and claw for nearly eight years.
05.02.2008 11:28 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A prominent Andijan human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov was amnestied together with several other political prisoners following the order of the Main Directorate of Administrating Punishment under the Interior Ministry of Uzbekistan. Saidjahon Zainabitdinov founded the Appellation Human Ri
09.01.2008 15:59 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Jail is the worst ordeal man may encounter in his life. Jadgar Turlibekov, 69, the head of the Kashkadarja division of the Uzbek Human Rights Society, spent six months behind the bars on fabricated charges. What he had endured there Turlibekov told Ferghana.Ru shortly before he escaped Uzbekistan fo
21.12.2007 13:32 msk Human Rights Tajikistan
Conference "Infant school development in 2005 - 2010" in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, this week discussed a new strategy of development of infant schools. Addressing teachers, specialists from state structures, and local correspondents, Jukio Mokua of the UNICEF Mission in Tajikistan said on
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