Uzbekistan

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

The Wire, June 2006. Vol. 36, No.5.
31 May 2006

1) Rise in recruitment of child soldiers in DRC 2) Humanitarian crisis in Occupied Territories 3) Rural communities in Guatemala violently evicted 4) Racist attacks ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/005/2006

Uzbekistan: Impunity must not prevail
10 May 2006

This report summarizes Amnesty International's continuing concerns in relation to the aftermath of the tragic events in the eastern city of Andizhan in May 2005 ...

Report       EUR 62/010/2006

Uzbekistan: Web action: One year on, Andizhan victims deserve ...
4 May 2006

(w/out WA ref number) On the 13th of May 2005 the Uzbek security forces indiscriminately fired on demonstrators, mainly unarmed civilians in Andiyan. They ...

Report       EUR 62/013/2006

Press Freedom: Journalists in need of protection | Amnesty ...
3 May 2006

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, morejournalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in theworld.

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Uzbekistan: Health Professional Action: Tuberculosis in Prison ...
27 April 2006

Iskandar Khudaiberganov, held on death row in Tashkent prison, Uzbekistan, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in 2004 and reportedly is receiving inadequate ...

Report       EUR 62/009/2006

Uzbekistan: Fear of torture or ill-treatment/Forcible return/Fear ...
23 April 2006

Husein Dzhelil (known as Huseyin Celil), aged 37, a Canadian citizen and ethnic Uighur from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China, was ...

Urgent Action       EUR 62/008/2006

Russian Federation: Extradition/Torture/Death Penalty: Bairamali ...
20 April 2006

Uzbekistani national Bairamali Yusupov, who has applied for asylum in Russia, is facing extradition to Uzbekistan, where he would be at risk of torture and even ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/017/2006

Uzbekistan: Appeal Case Update: Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov ...
18 April 2006

According to reports, human rights defender Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in Tashkent on 5 January 2006, after what was effectively ...

Report       EUR 62/003/2006

Uzbekistan: Appeal Case Update: Mutabar Tadzhibaeva - Human Rights ...
18 April 2006

On 6 March 2006 human rights defender Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, Chairwoman of the human rights organization Fiery Hearts Club, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment ...

Report       EUR 62/004/2006

Uzbekistan: Appeal Case: Ezgulik (Goodness) activists from ...
18 April 2006

On 12 January 2006 Dilmurod Muhiddinov, a human rights activist from Andizhan and a member of Ezgulik (Goodness) human rights group, was sentenced to five years ...

Report       EUR 62/005/2006