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10.05.2007 12:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Andijani Tragedy Commemoration Days traditionally take place in May. Some press conferences and roundtable conferences will take place in Paris, Berlin, London, Washington, Stockholm, Moscow, Kiev, and other cities this year.
07.05.2007 12:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Ironically as it is but winners of the Golden Pen National Award (Oltin Kalam) in Uzbekistan were honored at a posh ceremony in Tashkent on May 3, Freedom of Press Day and the day free-lance journalist Umida Niyazova was sentenced to seven years behind the bars.
07.05.2007 11:04 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The international community appeals to EU countries to heed the lot of Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova, human rights activists tried and sentenced to imprisonment in Uzbekistan. Here is the text of the appeal.
07.05.2007 09:54 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
24.kg news agency quoted Galina Skripkina, the Akayevs' lawyer, that Bermet Akayeva signed recognizance not to leave and remain within reach of law enforcement agencies.
04.05.2007 21:22 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Louise Arbour, UN Supreme Commissar for Human Rights, is visiting Turkmenistan within the framework of her fact-finding tour of Central Asian countries. President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov received the UN executive on May 3.
03.05.2007 13:10 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The trial of Umida Niyazova, 32, lasted only two days and ended on may 1. Judge Nizom Rustamov sentenced Niyazova, a human rights activist and journalist, to seven years imprisonment in a colony.
02.05.2007 11:15 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Department of Visas and Registrations of the Yakkasarai district of Tashkent denies the exit visa to Alo Hojayev, former chief editor of the newspaper Tashkentskaya Pravda who is currently associated with the web site Tribune-uz.
01.05.2007 17:47 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A court in Tashkent sentenced independent journalist Umida Niyazova to seven years in prison today. Prosecutors had asked the court for an eight-year term. Umida Niyazova was found guilty of illegal border crossing, carrying contraband, and fostering unrest with the help of foreign funding. Niyazova
27.04.2007 21:55 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Justice Ministry drafted a law under whose terms a citizen of Kyrgyzstan whose life or property are in jeopardy may shoot the criminal in self-defense and be assured of his or her immunity even though the assailant died.
27.04.2007 14:04 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Gubalhor Turayeva, a prominent human rights activist from the Andijan region, was sentenced to six years imprisonment by the regional court on April 24.
23.04.2007 11:51 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Uzbek Foreign Ministry extended Andrea Berg's accreditation for three months. Director of Human Rights Watch Uzbek office, Berg was summoned to Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov on April 21. Norov told her that accreditation would be extended as long as the law was abided by.
19.04.2007 20:29 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Today, April 19, in Sergeliyskiy regional court of Tashkent there should have started a trial on Umida Niyazova’s case, the journalist and human rights activist, who was arrested several months ago and accused of a number of crimes by Uzbekistan authorities.
16.04.2007 09:02 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Niyazova was detained by Transport Prosecutor’s Office on January 22, 2007, for several days kept in a pre-trial detention centre in Andizhan, then sent to Tashkent, where she remains in a solitary cell.
09.04.2007 10:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Press Center of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists quotes trustworthy sources as saying that wardens of Special Colony 64/21 near Bekabad (Tashkent region) torture inmates, former officers of law enforcement agencies.
04.04.2007 11:08 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Every journalist in Uzbekistan working for a foreign media outlet will end up in jail sooner or later - just for the temerity of speaking or writing the truth. Needless to say, official charges will have nothing to do with journalism as such. The Uzbek Criminal Code offers a broad assortment of othe
04.04.2007 11:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Sherzod Kudratkhojayev, Press Secretary of the Uzbek premier, arranged a meeting with correspondents of the leading periodicals on April 2.
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