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01.09.09 10:13
Rights activist pardoned in Jizak Region
Uznews.net – Jizak Region’s Arnasay District court heard the case of farmer and human rights activist Oyazimhon Hidirova on 30 August and released her in courtroom in line with the Senate’s amnesty campaign. Continue reading »
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UZBEKISTAN: Several human rights defenders detained in serious danger Continue reading »
IFEX – News from the international freedom of expression community
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ALERT – UZBEKISTAN
28 August 2009
New abuse of jailed dissident
SOURCE: Human Rights Watch
Family visits threatened after relatives publicize mistreatment
(Human Rights Watch/IFEX) – (New York, August 27, 2009) – Uzbek authorities
should promptly investigate new allegations of abuse against a political
prisoner, Yusuf Jumaev, and ensure that his family is permitted regular
visits, Human Rights Watch said today. Continue reading »
Right defenders protect the rights of citizens and who will protect the rights of right defenders which remains very little in Uzbekistan and the majority are in prison.
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26.08.09 18:55
Uzbek rights activist accused of 13 crimes
Uznews.net – The police department of Jizzakh Region’s Arnasay District has ended the investigation into the case of a farmer and human rights activist, Oyazimhon Hidirova, accusing the woman under 13 articles of the Criminal Code.
On 22 August, investigators from Jizzakh Region’s Arnasay interior department accomplished the investigation into the case of Jizzakh-based rights activist Oyazimhon Hidirova, with shocking results for her lawyer and relatives. You recall that Hidirova was detained late in July. She was charged under the Criminal Code’s 13 articles, including 168 (Fraud), 184 (The Evasion of Taxes and Other Payments), parts two and three of article 277 (Hooliganism), 288 (Forgery), 166 (Robbery), 167 (Theft through Misappropriation and Embezzlement) and others. Immediately following the investigation on 22 August, Hidirova was transported under guard to the neighbouring Syrdarya Region, where she was placed in Havas District’s detention centre. Continue reading » |
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21.08.09 13:33
Jailed Uzbek dissident writer barred from meeting daughter
Uznews.net – The Zhaslyk prison administration has prevented the imprisoned dissident writer Yusuf Juma from meeting his daughter Feruza. The prison administration has again reduced his meeting from three days to one and made his daughter leave the prison.
The writer’s wife, Gulnara Oltiyeva, who is residing in the USA, said that Feruza had arrived from Bukhara at the prison in Zhaslyk, a village in the north of Karakalpakstan, on 10 August to visit his jailed father Yusuf Juma. Before she was allowed to see her father, she had had to wait for eight days in prison rooms, which are unsuitable for living, full of lice and bugs and has no basic facilities but which are still used by the administration to host relatives of inmates. Continue reading » |