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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.
22.07.2008 19:48 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Matthew Pringle has served as Europe and Central Asia Program Officer at the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT). In the interview with Ferghana.ru he evaluates current situation with tortures in Uzbekistan, explains what APT does in this regard and what could be done to improve the situ
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.
21.07.2008 18:54 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
In the first public appearance a week after a series of blasts at a Soviet arms depot in Kagan President Islam Karimov underlined that Soviet military architects and Ministry of Defence could be blamed for the incident.
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
14.07.2008 20:56 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Tashpulat Yuldashev, an independent political analyst, has left Uzbekistan due to his being harassed by government police and being denied employment because of his political views.
11.07.2008 21:25 msk Uzbekistan
Most of the patients injured in a series of blasts at a military base in Kagan, Bukhara region, are in satisfactory condition, one of the doctors working in the Bukhara first aid medical clinic told Ferghana.ru. on Friday. Earlier reports claiming 100 patients were receiving first aid treatment in B
10.07.2008 22:55 msk Interview Uzbekistan
“When we were fleeing Kagan heavy blast broke out and we lied bending our heads as if in some action movie. Then we continued running away.” (Eyewitness narrative)
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
08.07.2008 10:56 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Professor Bekdjan Oibekovich Tashmukhammedov is the head of the Physics of Membranes Laboratory at the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences. Chairman of the MAB UNESCO National Committee, Professor Tashmukhammedov actively promotes radically sophisticated solutions
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.
30.06.2008 22:50 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Currently, Uzbekistan’s ratio of 90 students per 10,000 citizens is considered quite low. At the same time, the ratio in Kyrgyzstan is 410; 572 in Taiwan; and 322 in Canada. Children and juveniles under 18 years make up almost 40% of the Uzbek population. Further, only about 10% of high school gradu
30.06.2008 20:48 msk Uzbekistan
These days, cattle are grazing in the streets of the Uzbek capital. Like Kyrgyz cattle breeders who drive their stock to the jailoo or mountainous pastures, their Tashkent colleagues have cattle outdoors – virtually everywhere except in some central areas of Tashkent. Cows and sheep methodically dev
27.06.2008 10:07 msk Uzbekistan
She could have become a successful designer, pop star or poet – but these are just her hobbies. “Her destiny and character have become as large a range of colors as Uzbek’s ornament has.” “She has enormous plans - conferences, meetinsg with foreign colleagues, contests, festivals, the launch of a ne
24.06.2008 10:58 msk Interview Uzbekistan
In order to jail this woman, a lot of people were needed: the police, the SNB ( Slujba natsional’noy bezopasnosti – National Security Service, the successor of the Soviet KGB), representatives from the Presidential administration, prosecutors and judges. During the trial sessions the entire city of
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