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15.05.2012 00:16 msk
A 73-years-old Russian woman Tamara Talashmanova from a small town of Sysert in Ural has been under home arrest in Uzbekistan since April 26, 2012. The Russian pensioner with no previous criminal record faces 5 to 7 years in prison. After visiting her old friends in Uzbekistan, Tamara Talashmanova was on her way home catching a flight from Samarkand to Ekaterinburg on the 26th of April. At the airport she was stopped after police found a blister of Phenazepam pills in her hand luggage. Uzbek authorities took her foreign passport and a plane ticket and put her under home arrest pending trial on charges of “drug smuggling”.
13.05.2012 00:44 msk
Stray dogs in Turkmenistan get poisoned with pieces of sausage stuffed with deadly substances or broken glass scattered around junk yards. Poisoned dogs convulse in agony for hours, barking and howling in a high-pitched voice, saliva and blood dripping from mouth. If you have a dog in Ashgabat, the country capital, your pet may find poison placed by exterminators at your doorstep. Turkmen president is believed to be a dog-hater who gets crazy if he catches a sight of a dog in the city streets. A human right activist from Ashgabat, Natalia Shabunts, a woman of unbelievable courage, sent this article about the dogs’ lot in Turkmenistan.
06.05.2012 22:28 msk
A country-wide anti-prostitution campaign run all over Uzbekistan this spring includes both street raids by the law enforcement as well as special awareness raising programs on TV. However, analysts agree that campaign’s purpose is to gain the tight control over the whole sex industry instead of eradicating the prostitution as a social phenomenon. So to speak: ”nothing personal, it’s just business”.
05.05.2012 17:47 msk
Men were killed a result of a prisoners’ riot violently suppressed by police in the outskirts of the capital of Uzbekistan on the 4th of May, 2012, though details of the deadly accident are not disclosed. Our anonymous source from Tashkent reported hearing machine gun fire in the Yakkasaray district of Tashkent on Friday afternoon. The whole area was immediately cordoned off by policemen holding hands to form a human chain around a fairly large district.
03.05.2012 23:06 msk
Trials over journalists like Elena Bondar and Viktor Krymzalov, employee of the UK embassy in Uzbekistan Leonid Kudryavtsev, along with many human rights defenders, such as Tatiana Dovlatova, in particular, vividly demonstrate that the authorities have changed their tactics towards punishing persons engaged in civic activism considered by Uzbek authorities to be undesirable. The most recent cases add another touch of color to the picture of the Uzbekistan’s reality providing evidence of creation of a peculiar club of honor, consisting of persecuted independent journalists.
26.04.2012 10:57 msk
Over the course of the last year, the relations between Uzbekistan and the West have steadily improved. But, as we discuss the costs and benefits of any further strategic engagement with the Karimov’s regime, we must not forget the individual victims of that government's repressive policies who continue to languish in Uzbekistan's prisons.
26.04.2012 00:44 msk
A World economics and world politics club has discussed the situation in Afghanistan and implications for the Central Asia in order to identify some of the most likely regional scenarios following the scheduled withdrawal of the NATO troops from Afghanistan after 2014. The meeting attended by Zamir Kabulov, the Russian President’s special representative for Afghanistan and by Nikolay Borduzha, the secretary general of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization)has been moderated by Fedor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of the “Russia in global politics” magazine.
20.04.2012 16:49 msk
Earlier this year, a formerly well-known banker, doctor of science, journalist and writer Rustam Usmanov who had already served 14 years in prison has been sentenced to additional 5 years while still in jail. His family and even his own defense attorney have learned about this post factum only. Desperate to see his father released any time soon, Rustam Usmanov’s son has addressed the president of Uzbekistan in an open letter describing some of the previously unknown details of his father’s conviction. A short abstract from the letter is published by Fergana in English.
16.03.2012 10:45 msk
Early March 2012. Another trip to the city of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan. In the last two years I have visited this place quite often and every time I come across some new development in the Kyrgyz-Uzbeks relationship. Indeed, there is no saying that life in Osh is fully back on the normal track. One thing for sure - the life goes on. First thing to do in Osh is to visit the “Cheremushki”, a residential area that suffered most in the June 2010 events, In June 2011, citizens were worried that the city’s mayor did not want to have the houses rebuilt. A local woman told me that donors were ready to start the reconstruction and waited for a permission but “mayor Myrzakmatov would not issue such a permission, as he wants to compel Uzbeks away and use the free land anyway he wants”.
29.02.2012 09:33 msk
Access to a website of Fergana news agency was blocked in Kyrgyzstan as of February 21, 2012. The state-controlled “KyrgyzTelecom” company as well as some other internet providers have thus complied with an instructions issued by the State Communication Agency which in turn responded to an inquiry made by the prime-minister Omurbek Babanov who chose to follow up on the last year’s order of the national parliament. One may recall that in June 2011, the parliament had, upon review of the parliamentary commission’s report of investigation of the June 2010 events in Osh, recommended that access to the website of Fergana should be blocked across the country.
24.02.2012 22:45 msk
It’s been reported to Fergana that Rustam Usmanov, formerly a well-known businessman, sentenced to 14 years in prison in Uzbekistan upon a number of tax charges in 1998, has recently been sentenced to another five years in prison under the article 221 of the Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code (“Noncompliance with requirements of the prison administration’). According to our own data, the 14-years-long imprisonment of the former banker Usmanov ended on the 14 of February, 2012. However, he has not been released as expected but sentenced to another five years in prison. There is no official confirmation of this information yet. His defense attorney has not received a copy of the new sentence that should explain the reason for such a severe punishment (longest possible sentence under the article 221).
24.02.2012 21:57 msk
In the course of the journalist investigation of the case of Jamshid Mukhtorov, arrested in the U.S upon terrorist charges, Fergana learned of another refugee from Uzbekistan, formerly a high ranking police officer in Jizak, who had been granted political asylum in the United States at about the same time as Jamshid. This phenomenon has been discovered some time ago. Back in 2007, a famous human right defender Talib Yakubov wrote the following in his article: “Both persecuted and persecutors flee from Uzbekistan. A high ranking police officer Zoir Sharipov, formerly in charge of the counterterrorism activities in the Jizak regional department of police, responsible for torturing dozens if not hundreds of people, has successfully settled down in New York as a result of events in Andizhan. It’ a mystery how he managed to enter the United States and obtain the political asylum”.
10.02.2012 23:44 msk
According to the most recent data, presented on the 7 of February this year, over a million of foreigners have visited Uzbekistan in 2011, including some 463,400 tourists, while the overall number of tourists, including citizens of Uzbekistan has reached 1 million.
31.01.2012 13:49 msk
Human right activists from a number of international NGOs, including ACAT-France (Action des chretiens pour l'abolition de la torture et des executions capitals), FIDH (The International Federation for Human Rights), Amnesty International-France, the French League for Human Rights (LDH), along with the Ardent Hearts Club and the Human rights in Central Asia Association gathered in front of the embassy of Uzbekistan in Paris for a public action dedicated to liberation of all political prisoners and protection of human rights on the occasion of Islam Karimov’s birthday on the 30 of January, 2012.
29.01.2012 23:35 msk
23:47 Kadyrjan Batyrov, leader of the Uzbek ethnic community from Kyrgyzstan, speaks at OSCE Human dimension seminar on May 14, 2012
00:26 Briefing «Political Prisoners in Central Asia»: Statement by Sanjar Umarov
00:16 Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalists imprisoned in Central Asia
22:53 Uzbekistan: Elena Urlaeva’s first interview after the mental clinic
22:23 Uzbekistan: Mass exploitation of rural students during spring field activities continues
00:13 Asia-Plus: “Abducted” Nizomkhon Juraev is at large in Dushanbe
00:02 Kazakhstan: Vladimir Kim, the chairman of KazakhMys, to resign
00:00 Kazakhstan: Civil society activists released from jail
23:58 Eurasian Development Bank publishes a paper on water problems in the Central Asia
15:53 Uzbekistan: Human rights activist Elena Urlaeva released from psychiatric hospital
00:33 Uzbekistan: 7 years after the Andizhan massacre the EU and the US should insist on the human rights improvement, the Human Rights Watch urges
21:23 Kyrgyzstan: New party created in Kyrgyzstan by a member of parliament
19:43 State Statistics Agency of Uzbekistan: Country’s population exceeds 29,6 million
19:41 Jamshid Mukhtarov undertakes a hunger strike in U.S. prison
The Local Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden, 16.05.2012
The Telegraph Uzbek police investigate murder of former minister, 15.05.2012
RIAN Putin Pledges to Develop Ties with Uzbekistan, 15.05.2012
New Europe GE Energy to modernise Turkmen energy infrastructure, 14.05.2012
Reporters without borders Nursultan Nazarbayev as a predator, 04.05.2012
World Politics Review Uzbekistan-Tajikistan Tensions Driven by Mutual Dependence, 03.05.2012
Eurasianet Uzbekistan: Will Karimov Get Blown Off in Windy City?, 02.05.2012
RFE/RL Uzbek Border Guards Kill Two Afghan Drug Traffickers , 02.05.2012
CPJ 10 Most Censored Countries (video), 02.05.2012
RFE/RL Former U.S. Presidential Candidate Cain Still Has No Idea Who Uzbek President Is, 25.04.2012
Eurasianet U.S. Business Group Asks Obama To Meet Karimov At NATO Summit, 22.04.2012
SVT Teliasonera cooperates with oppressive regimes, 19.04.2012
Forum 18 TURKMENISTAN: Maximum prison sentence for latest conscientious objector, 18.04.2012
Foreign policy Susan G. Komen foundation teams up with Uzbek dictator's daughter, 18.04.2012
The Nation ‘Bad father’ bears the brunt, 15.04.2012
Youtube Ballad of Zhanaozen, 14.04.2012
Chicago Tribune Uzbekistan rights abuses continue despite U.S. aid, 13.04.2012
UzDaily Protection of women, children health to be discussed in Tashkent, 12.04.2012
BBC Uzbekistan's policy of secretly sterilising women, 12.04.2012
Forum 18 UZBEKISTAN: Continuing freedom of movement bans, 11.04.2012
Washington Post Isolated Uzbekistan attempts to lure foreign investors with tax breaks, reduced interference, 11.04.2012
RFE/RL Uzbekistan Pays Teachers With Chickens, 10.04.2012
CRI.cn China, Uzbekistan Pledge to Strengthen Military Ties, 10.04.2012
TOL The Kyrgyz David and the Russian Goliath, 08.04.2012
Independent A dirty deal: Uzbek dictator 'has UK over a barrel' , 08.04.2012
AP Uzbekistan's first daughter to release new album, 06.04.2012
Indian Express No phones, no showers for Davis Cuppers at Namangan, 06.04.2012
Telegraph Tajikistan and Uzbekistan row over "economic blockade", 05.04.2012
Stratfor The Geographic Origins of Uzbek-Tajik Tensions, 04.04.2012
BBC Tajikistan accuses Uzbekistan of economic blockade, 03.04.2012
Guardian Letter from Uzbekistan: it's party time, 03.04.2012
Euronews Double blast in Uzbek capital, 02.04.2012
WND Uzbekistan demands becoming more unpredictable, 02.04.2012
Today's Zaman Democracy a distant dream for most of Central Asia, 01.04.2012
Washington Times Railway project sparks hope, suspicion in Kyrgyzstan, 31.03.2012
DVIDS Pakistan route critical to reset, retrograde in Afghanistan, 31.03.2012
International Partnership for human rights Turkmenistan: Damning UN report shows need for urgent action, 31.03.2012
ICG Kyrgyzstan: Widening Ethnic Divisions in the South, 30.03.2012
RFE/RL U.S. Military Commander Visits Uzbekistan, 30.03.2012
Defense.Gov Troops Kill Terror Group’s Senior Leader in Afghanistan, 29.03.2012
Reuters Tajikistan seeks Turkmen gas as shortage looms, 28.03.2012
Forum18 UZBEKISTAN: Religious literature only for "internal use by registered religious organisations", 19.03.2012
RT Kyrgyz private armies incite “permanent revolution”, 18.03.2012
Forum18 Uzbekistan: Islamic and Christian literature ordered destroyed, 16.03.2012
Eurasianet Kyrgyzstan: Prosecution of Russian Journalist Tests Ethnic Enmity Laws, 15.03.2012
USA today American shooting suspect flown out of Afghanistan, 15.03.2012
Pravda Kyrgyzstan bids farewell to Russian and US airbases, 14.03.2012
Eurasianet Pentagon: NDN Is Great, But We Still Need Pakistan, 09.03.2012
Reporters without borders Facebook and four news websites blocked on government’s orders, 08.03.2012
Uznews.net Karimov should resign, says Sanjar Umarov, 06.03.2012
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