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06.06.2015 01:02 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Taking photographs during the latest anti-terror exercises in Osh was prohibited. This image was made during a “clearing” police carried out in Osh mahallas in June 2010.
04.06.2015 00:41 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Reports on humiliations detainees and arrestees are subjected to in Uzbekistan rarely leave the walls of police stations, pre-trial detention facilities or torture chambers. One would hear about the cases of only those who died in detention or those so desperate and hopeless that they no longer fear
29.05.2015 11:34 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Steve Swerdlow of Human Rights Watch speaks on the 10th anniversary of Andijan massacre and the current situation in Uzbekistan at Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission briefing on May 21, 2015, US Congress
18.05.2015 09:40 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Over the last two weeks, the city of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan has been plagued by rumours about an imminent “revolution” or an “interethnic conflict.” Nobody knows who is disseminating them and what goals the initiators of this fear campaign are pursuing.
16.05.2015 17:13 msk Central Asia Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
On the eve of his 64th birthday anniversary, human rights activist Azimjan Askarov wrote a letter of gratitude addressed to all those who supported and continue supporting him—friends, co-workers, international organizations and private entities.
13.05.2015 23:03 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Wednesday 13 May marks ten years since the massacre in Andizhan. Uzbek authorities claim that this is “a closed topic”. Totalitarian regimes decide a lot, but not this. The case is not closed until the victims’ families say so.
13.05.2015 20:50 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
May 13 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the bloodiest events in the history of modern Uzbekistan. On that day in 2005, thousands of Uzbek citizens took to Babur Square in the city of Andijan in protest. The demonstration was a reaction to the three-month trial of 23 entrepreneurs from the Andija
28.04.2015 20:45 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
It would be difficult to overestimate the role small and medium businesses and enterprises play in any country’s economic development. The experience many developed nations have suggests that this particular sector ensures an economy enjoys necessary flexibility and capacity to appropriately respond
23.04.2015 10:06 msk Business Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan
The film “Karachaganak:Children in Exchange for Oil” deals with tragedy that occurred in the Kazakh village of Berezovka on 28 November 2014. Emissions from the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field have resulted in the mass poisoning children in the village. The situation in Berezovka is critic
15.04.2015 11:17 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Images of cotton fields and workers are provided by the author
09.04.2015 23:41 msk Human Rights Politics Turkey, Republic of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a bill on domestic security into law on April 3, which significantly expands powers of the police. Those of our readers who closely watched how the Turkish president pushed the bill down the MPs’ throats might be under an impression that heated debates a
03.04.2015 09:44 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Shukhrat Rustamov, a Tashkent-based human rights activist, administered a self-styled “monitoring” of voting during the recent presidential elections in Uzbekistan on March 29. He has personally counted the number of voters that came to Polling Station No. 492 in Tashkent throughout the entire elect
31.03.2015 12:09 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
“Everyone is voting for Karimov, our entire family,” says a clean-cut and round-faced storeowner in Tashkent’s Labzak district. “Another person will be thinking about himself for the next 20 years. But he [Karimov] does not think about himself, thinks about his people only.”
28.03.2015 22:09 msk Analytics Human Rights Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Pulat Ahunov is an oppositionist from Uzbekistan, who is chairman of the Sweden-based Association Central Asia and the founder of the Foundation for Combatting Corruption in Uzbekistan. Mr. Ahunov shares his memories of meetings with Islam Karimov in late 1980s to mid-1990s.
08.03.2015 11:28 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of
Tajik oppositionist Umarali Kuvvatov assassinated in Istanbul shortly after Boris Nemtsov’s assassination in Moscow
13.02.2015 14:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life Uzbekistan
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