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Another political prisoner in Uzbekistan released

05.10.2017 22:41 msk Human Rights Opposition Politics Uzbekistan

Sometimes, good news keeps on coming from Uzbekistan: journalist and human rights activist Solizhon Abdurakhmanov freed on 4 October, who spent more than nine years in prison on a fabricated charge. Abdurakhman Tashanov, representative of the human rights society "Ezgulik" informed Fergana about it.

Opium for the President: Religion and Kyrgyzstan’s forthcoming elections

04.10.2017 08:12 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life

Religion has traditionally been a delicate topic for Kyrgyzstan . Even though the overwhelming majority of the Republic’s population identifies as Muslim, no presidential candidate has been in any hurry to touch upon the topic of religion in their election manifestos. Is the political elite ignoring

«To people like you I can say that I’m Uzbek»

03.10.2017 16:09 msk Afghanistan Migration Politics Uzbekistan

It’s a Sunday at the end of one of the many busy weeks working on the new BBC Uzbek TV programme for Afghanistan’s Uzbek-speakers. I am on a shopping trip to the bustling East Street market in South London, where fresh fruit and vegetables are in abundance and sold for almost nothing. Known as a tra

Secret arrest again. Still no respect for human rights in Uzbekistan

03.10.2017 09:10 msk Human Rights Internet Politics Uzbekistan

The atmosphere in Uzbekistan is changing; breathing is becoming freer. A more biting press is emerging, the previously crushed and cornered public is reviving, and the authorities loudly declare adherence to universal human rights.

Cotton Slavery in Uzbekistan: The Last Victims?

28.09.2017 17:32 msk Analytics Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

This cotton season in Uzbekistan barely started has already claimed lives of four people. The sad statistics of the newest Uzbek "cotton-growing" replenishes year by year.

Rotten method: Kyrgyzstan actively discusses the ethnicity of the presidential candidate?

27.09.2017 09:16 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan

If the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, scheduled on 15 October, would have conducted today the clear winner would be Omurbek Babanov. The charismatic, strong-willed and young politician, he has the advantage above all his competitors. And first of all far from the candidate from the party of p

Turkmenistan healthcare in coma

26.09.2017 09:14 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan

For more than ten years, a certified doctor, a doctor of medical sciences, a "social hygiene and the organisation of health care" professor has been the President of Turkmenistan. The former Minister of Health should have known all issues of public medicine better. However, health care performance i

Russian oligarch powered flight of the second president of Uzbekistan to the West

24.09.2017 11:04 msk Analytics Editorial Politics Uzbekistan

September visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the United States intended to participate in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, actually accommodated many important events for official Tashkent, diplomatic, economic and humanitarian. Somehow, this trip of the Uzbek lea

Human rights defender about forced deportation of Uzbeks

21.09.2017 09:57 msk Human Rights Migration Politics Russia Uzbekistan

Human rights defender Bahrom Khamroev was born in Uzbekistan , but since 1992 he lives in Russia. Working for the Moscow-based Memorial Centre Bahrom oversees issues related to the protection of the civil rights of fellow countrymen and migrant workers who have arrived from other Central Asia republ

Uzbekistan Football Federation Ltd

17.09.2017 19:46 msk Politics Uzbekistan

Article illustrations: the official Twitter of the Football Federation of Uzbekistan, own Fergana photos

Criminals and Officials in Kyrgyzstan: Who is Covering Whom?

15.09.2017 13:08 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics

“Krysha” (or “krisha”) in Russia means “roof” or “cover”. The term born in the 1990s when the rule of law was weak and racketeers protected vulnerable entrepreneurs from other gangsters for a fee or a share of its gain. Later, central or local government officials started "covering" business themsel

Four years for journalist who opposes Islam in Kyrgyzstan

13.09.2017 16:31 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life

On 12 September, the District Court in Bishkek sentenced journalist Zulpukar Sapanov to four years in prison finding him guilty of "inciting inter-religious hostility". Sapanov wrote and published the "Kydyr sanjyrasy" (literal translation - "Genealogy of the forefather Kydyr") book in which the aut

Muhammad Salih: «I will return to Uzbekistan only as a completely free man!»

08.09.2017 18:03 msk Human Rights Interview Opposition Politics Uzbekistan

As Fergana previously reported, Interpol supposedly removed the names of the Uzbek opposition leader Muhammad Salih and his younger brother Maksud Bekzhan from its wanted list. Salih himself had talked about this to a BBC journalist. Fergana’s Editor-in-chief editor Daniil Kislov spoke to the poli-t

Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan preferred to resolve border issue secretly

06.09.2017 23:21 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan

On 5 September, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Bishkek to sign the agreement on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Many experts, including the leadership of both republics, are considering the first visit of the Uzbek president to Kyrgyzstan in 17 years as a sign of warming of bilateral relatio

Elena Serebryanik–Bell: «I found My Tashkent Sun in the state of New Mexico»

02.09.2017 18:47 msk Arts Russia Uzbekistan

What do Russian theater, Uzbek poetry, public diplomacy and the U.S. State Department have in common? Please, meet the native of Tashkent, Ms. Elena Serebryanik-Bell, actress, choreographer, and interpreter - in the broadest sense of the word, since Elena, among other things, is perhaps the main pra

Islam Karimov: A great ruler or enemy of the people?

28.08.2017 18:04 msk Editorial Politics Uzbekistan

Exactly one year ago in Uzbekistan, a theatrical but rather false staging played under the title "Our president is alive and well."

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