Posted 2012/1/31

Uzbekistan: Ongoing detention of human rights defender Mr Akzam Turgunov declared ‘arbitrary’ by UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

In an opinion recently made available, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) confirms that the ongoing detention of human rights defender Mr Akzam Turgunov is arbitrary, and calls for his immediate release.

Akzam Turgunov is the executive director and founder of “Mazlum” human rights centre, a human rights organisation in Tashkent that advocates on behalf of prisoners of conscience and protests against the use of torture.

He also served as Director of the Tashkent section of Erk (“Freedom”), a political opposition party. In July 2008, he was investigating police corruption charges and working as a lay public defender on behalf of a woman in a divorce settlement dispute in the town on Manget when he was arrested on extortion charges.

He was held without access to a lawyer, and boiling water was poured over his back and neck during his interrogation. Following an unfair trial in which the plaintiff was not questioned, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Akzam Turgunov is currently being detained at a prison camp and is forced to work in a brick making factory.

Front Line Defenders welcomes the opinion of the WGAD, adopted on 17 November 2011, which states that the charges against Akzam Turgunov were a fabricated means to punish him for exercising his rights to freedom of opinion, expression, association, and political participation. The WGAD holds that “the Government used an involvement of Mr Turgunov in the resolution of a settlement in civil matters to prosecute and punish him for his human rights and political activities.”

The WGAD also notes that authorities failed to adequately investigate the mistreatment of the human rights defender and calls on the government to “release Mr Turgunov and accord him an enforceable right to compensation.” The full text of the WGAD’s opinion is available on Freedom Now website

Front Line Defenders has previously called on the authorities in Uzbekistan to immediately and unconditionally release Akzam Turgunov and other human rights defenders who are being detained as a result of their human rights work in Uzbekistan – see h Original appeal by Front Line Defenders

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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.

They have sent dozens of toy balloons soaring in the sky over Paris as a symbol of liberation of each and every political prisoner detained in Uzbekistan.

This public manifestation of protest has been organized by international law students at the Universitй Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dйfense. Their leaders spoke about being shocked with the stories of political prisoners in Uzbekistan and of their decision to join efforts towards their liberation. Students give their support to the Ardent Hearts Club led by Mutabar Tajibaeva, a renowned Uzbek human rights activist.

Another activist and the head of the “Human rights in the Central Asia” association, Nadezhda Ataeva tells Fergana they have been forced to relocate the meeting of protest to a Boulevard Malesherbes, a busy street not far away from the embassy as diplomats from the embassy complained to the police about the proposed picket at the embassy.

Members of the Christian Association against tortures and capital punishment (ACAT-France) who support families of political prisoners in Uzbekistan by keeping correspondence for many years, have held up pictures of the imprisoned human right defenders and journalists.

Sascha Kulaeva, from FIDH, and Tamar Buro, of the International Amnesty-France, have presented the findings of the monitoring of human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, staffers of the embassy have refused to accept any statements from the human right defenders or meet representatives of international human right organizations.

Photos by Dmitriy Tikhonov. Video by Sebastian Nuza (Paris). Poster against exploitation of children labor in Uzbekistan courtesy of Association Droits de l’Homme en Asie Centrale

Fergana International information Agency

http://enews.fergananews.com/article.php?id=2742

I am please to inform you that in response to a petition filed by Freedom Now, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued an opinion that the detention of Akzam Turgunov by the Government of Uzbekistan is arbitrary and in violation of international law. Below, please find Freedom Now’s press release commenting on the opinion. For a pdf of the Working Group’s full opinion, please click here.

In addition, Freedom Now’s Executive Director Maran Turner published an op-ed, available here, in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer calling on the United States to raise individual cases like Mr. Turgunov’s even as it increases strategic engagement with Uzbekistan.

For further information or comment, please contact me at pgriffith@freedom-now.org or +1.202.223.3733.

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Patrick Griffith
Freedom Now
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January 27, 2012

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United Nations Declares Continued Detention of Akzam Turgunov Arbitrary; Calls for Release

Washington, D.C.: In response to a petition filed by Freedom Now, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued an opinion that the detention of Akzam Turgunov by the Government of Uzbekistan is arbitrary and a violation of international law. The UN Working Group—an independent panel of human rights experts from around the world calls for his release.

In July 2008, Mr. Turgunov—an experienced Uzbek opposition leader and human rights advocate—was investigating police corruption in the town of Manget and working as a lay public defender on behalf of a woman in a divorce settlement dispute. Police in Manget arrested Mr. Turgunov in response to this work on spurious extortion charges. While holding Mr. Turgunov without access to a lawyer, an interrogator poured boiling water on Mr. Turgunov’s neck and back. The government sentenced Mr. Turgunov to 10 years in prison after a procedurally deficient trial where the court denied him the right to confront his accuser. Now at the age of 60, Mr. Turgunov is detained at a prison camp where he is forced to work in a brick-making factory.

In its opinion, the Working Group recognized that the extortion charges against Mr. Trugunov were a fabricated means to punish him for exercising his fundamental rights to freedom of opinion, expression, association, and political participation. It held that “the Government used an involvement of Mr. Turgunov in the resolution of a settlement in civil matters to prosecute and punish him for his human rights and political activities.” The Working Group found that the “non-observance of the international norms relating to the right to a fair trial… in this case [were] of such gravity as to give the deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character.” The Working Group also noted that authorities failed to adequately investigate the mistreatment of Mr. Turgunov and called on the government to “release Mr. Turgunov and accord him an enforceable right to compensation.”

“We reiterate the Working Group’s demand that Mr. Turgunov be released,” said Maran Turner, Executive Director of Freedom Now. “The international community must now join the United Nations in condemning the Uzbek government’s flagrant disregard of its obligations under international law and raise Mr. Turgunov’s case at every opportunity.”

Freedom Now serves as international pro bono legal counsel to Mr. Turgunov.

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The New York-based NGO, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says it is outraged by the new five-year prison sentence handed down to Muhammad Bekjan, editor of the Erk opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan, just days before he was due to be released from prison.

The CPJ is calling on the Uzbek authorities to release Bekjan and to punish those responsible for torturing him while he was awaiting trial in 1999.

“This is a blatantly politicized new prison term levied against Muhammad Bekjan, who should not have served even a single day in prison,” CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova said.

CPJ experts describe Islam Karimov’s government as an authoritarian regime, and say the country has the dishonourable reputation of being the top jailer of journalists in Central Asia.

“If Uzbekistan is to rejoin the international community, authorities must release all the journalists they are currently holding in retaliation for their work,” Ognianova said.

Muhammad Bekjan is the brother of Muhamma Solikh, the exiled leader of the Erk opposition party. Until his arrest Bekjan was the editor in chief of the opposition party’s newspaper, Erk, which was set up in 1990.

After acts of terrorism were carried out in Tashkent in February 1999, Bekjan was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 2003, under an amnesty, the sentence was reduced by three years and eight months.

In December 2011, governors of the prison where Bekjan is being held, fabricated a case against him saying his behaviour in prison had violated article 221 of the Criminal Code. On 24th January this year, the court in Kasan in Kashkdarya region, decided to punish this infringement with another five-year prison term.

Mukhammad Bekjan worked on the Erk paper with two of his brothers, Rashid and Kamil. They were also given long prison sentences. Kamil was released in 2003 under a prisoner amnesty. Rashid was freed in March 2011.

http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=hot&cid=3&nid=18900

For several days, the whereabouts of Jamshid Karimov, an independent journalist from Dzhizak region in Uzbekistan remains unknown. He is also a nephew of President of Uzbekistan.  Last November, Jamshid was released from a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand, where he was kept against his will for several years. We are very concerned that our friend and colleague has suddenly disappeared; he lived for meetings and conversations with his friends and colleagues and after years of seclusion he was planning to return to his favorite occupation, which is a journalism. Unfortunately, Uzbekistan is a country where the sudden silence of anyone, a follower of any beliefs should cause concern.

Even back in 2006, Jamshid had large plans, especially he dreamt about writing a book about his powerful relative; and in stubborn manner peculiar to him, he openly talked about his plans and wishes to deliver a number of major public speeches on the situation in his hometown Dzhizak. Eventually, those plans and his honesty led him to a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand. In his last conversation with us a few days ago, Jamshid, like seven years ago, was candid and talked about his desire to start writing a book, to renew his ties with the media. He was full of enthusiasm and inspiration…

So far, the fate of our friend and colleague is unknown to us; our attempts to find out his whereabouts have failed. Our worst suspicion is that Jamshid is locked up again. If it’s true, we can only hope that the forced confinement is in the form of a house arrest. We console ourselves with the hope that he was just released from the mental hospital and they would not put him right back there. At the same time, we understand that if he is under a house arrest, he would be suffering tremendously. The deprivation of opportunity to write and speak to a journalist is much worse than incarceration into a psychiatric hospital. Most likely, Jamshid has again found himself in the most terrible, oppressive atmosphere and his freedom-loving soul is suffering again.

Jamshid, like any man on this planet has the right to live as a free man, to creativity and love; to respect anyone or to hate anyone he wants. Nobody, including the President, the authorities of Uzbekistan has the right to decide how people should live. We demand the cessation of blatant interference into the life of Jamshid Karimov!  We call upon the world community not to remain indifferent to the fate of the journalists. We also appeal to Jamshid’s colleagues from around the world to join us in our demand: “Jamshid has the right to live freely!”

We demand the answers from the authorities of Uzbekistan, the authorities that today are trying to tell our friend Jamshid how to walk, how to stand, where to drink and what to eat, when and in which direction to sneeze. We demand from employees of those government agencies that are involved in this “dirty” work to assure us that Jamshid is alive and safe. We demand to leave journalists alone! If you don’t like what Jamshid openly says about your immoral acts, be sensible and brave and try to change your own ways, work on your own weaknesses and don’t try to eliminate a journalist. Try to understand that if Jamshid Karimov fails to tell the truth about your evil deeds and if he forcibly gets silent, there are a lot of us who will do that. Enough is enough: “Jamshid has the right to live freely!“.

It’s unbelievable, but today Uzbekistan doesn’t even strive to be equaled to democratic countries; moreover, democratic countries are trying to find an approach to Uzbekistan. As the result of these unsound actions, Uzbekistan crossed all boundaries. Now, it’s the norm in this country to silence a journalist, to punish him or even to expel him out of his own country. The authorities created very cruel system inside the country, although, speaking at the highest international tribunes, they impudently lie about the respect and observance of human rights. And the world community is silently swallowing these lies and therefore becoming a direct participant and an instigator of further repressions.

We call upon the international community to re-evaluate its unsound policy on Uzbekistan and not to deviate from the values that have been proclaimed as the most important ones. Please join us in our effort to protect those values and say: “Jamshid has the right to live freely! Demand from the authorities of Uzbekistan to leave alone Jamshid Karimov. Don’t be indifferent to the fate of our colleague!

1. Mutabar Tajibaeva, Human Rights Activist
2. Ulugbek Haydarov, Independent Journalist, Canada
3. Sahif Kotib, Head Editor Publisher, Ukraine
4. Husniddin Kutbiddinov, Independent Journalist, USA
5. Abdmalik Boboev, Journalist, Uzbekistan
6. Nasrullo Sayyid, Writer. Canada
7. Kudrat Bobojon, Journalist, Sweden

8. Yusuf Rasul, Journalist, Sweden
9. Daniil Kislov, Head Editor of Ferghana.ru, Moscow
10. Ellin Yonsson, Journalist, Head editor of Shveden TV in Russia
11. Abdujalil Boymatov, Human Rights Activist, Ireland
12. Farhodhon Muhtarov, Human Rights Activist, Uzbekistan
13. Aleksandr Kuleshov, Head Editor of “Vancouver Express”, Canada
14. Azizulloh Faryobiy, Poet, Canada
15. Tukkin Karaev, Human Rights Activist, Sweden
16. Gulshan Karaeva, Human Rights Activist, Uzbekistan
17. Jahongir Muhammad, Writer, Journalist, USA
18. Staff of Internet Publisher “Turonzamin”
19. Staff of Internet Publishere “Zamondosh”
20. Alisher Taksanov, Journalist, Switzerland
21. Gafur Yuldoshev, Journalist, Canada
22. Bahodir Musaev, The Political Scientist, Uzbekistan
23. Sanjar Umarov, USA
24. Abdujabbar Ismail
25. Hazratkul Hudoyberdi, Human Rights Activist, Sweden
26. Adham Tangriev, Activist of “Birdamlik”
27. Muborak Mamatkulova, Activist of “Birdamlik”
28. Members of People’s Movement of Uzbekistan, Canadian Branch
29. Pirmuhammad Holmuhammad, Canada

30.Shuhrat Ahmadjonov, USA
31.Muhammadsolih Abutov, Sweden

32. Vladimir Husainov, Human Rights Activist, Uzbekistan
33. Bashorat Eshova, Switzerland
34. Togbay Abdurazzok, Canada
35. Aleksey Voloseevich, Journalist, Uzbekistan
36. Ulugbek Babakulov, Head Editor of Newspaper “МК Asia”, Bishkek
37. Ilham Fayzimatov, Activist of “Birdamlik”, Russia
38. Muhammad Salih, Poet, Head of People’s Movement of Uzbekistan
39. Salomatoy Boymatova, Activist of the Human Rights Alliance, Uzbekistan

40. Saodat Amonova, Journalist, Journaist, Uzbekistan

41. Марат Nasybulin, Activist of People’s Movement of Uzbekistan, Canada.

42. Talib Yakubov, Human Rights Activist,

43. Ismail Dadajanov, Human Rights Activist, Sweden

http://www.yangifikr.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=381:2012-01-20-16-43-41&catid=1:latest-news ]]> http://en.hrsu.org/archives/1367/feed 0 http://en.hrsu.org/archives/1364 http://en.hrsu.org/archives/1364#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:14:51 +0000 admin http://en.hrsu.org/?p=1364 [...]]]> Jizak schoolteacher Ziedullo Razakov

The prosecutor of Jizak region’s Zarbdar district has overturned a local school headmaster’s decision to sack one of his teachers, and has reinstated Ziedullo Razakov, an opponent of child labour, in his job.

Ziedullo Razakov was able to return to work today at School No.1 in Zarbdar district. The decision of the school’s headmaster, Bakhtior Elmuradov, to sack Razakov on 12 January, claiming he had broken his contract, was overturned by the district prosecutor Akmal Gulmuratov.

According to Razakov, he had fallen out with the headmaster during the cotton campaign in 2011, and in an attempt to keep his job he took his case to the district prosecutor.

Gulmuratov called Bakhtior Elmuradov to his office the same day, together with Zukhra Shaimanova, a school staff committee representative, and other senior members of the school personnel.

They wrote an explanatory letter regarding the legality of Razakov’s dismissal. Razakov wrote down his own explanation, saying that he was sacked while off sick.

After discussions between prosecutor and the headmaster, Elmuradov announced that Razakov was to be reinstated but that he himself would be leaving the school.

This is the third case brought before the Zarbdar prosecutor relating to the dispute between this teacher and the headmaster.

On 3 October 2011, Elmuradov abused and punched Razakov in a cotton field because he had given an interview to Radio Ozodlik (freedom) in which he had talked about school children being made to harvest cotton.

After this incident Razakov took Elmuradov to court, and won his case in November.

The headmaster was made to pay a fine for his offence and for the physical assault on Razakov. The fine was ten times the minimum wage, or 572,000 sums (around US$300).

Razakov then made initiated a further case against the headmaster, claiming that there had been financial embezzlement at the school.

The prosecutor appointed an inspector to visit the school. Their checks were completed on 19 December, and the resulting report concluded that their had been financial irregularities at the school amounting to several million sums.

At present the prosecutor’s investigation is in its final stages.

The inspector’s report states that several teachers, for a variety of reasons, were paid more than their rightful wage. Now, 27 teachers are having to pay back to the state the money that they received illegally, said to be a total of 6,279,655 sums.

Ziedullo Razakov, delighted to have been reinstated in his teaching post at the school, says he would like to believe that it is possible for the rule of law to prevail in Uzbekistan. He has at least been assured of this by the district prosecutor Akmal Gulmuratov, who said, “In Uzbekistan, the law does work, and you can return to your job at the school without worry.”

http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=top&cid=3&nid=18789

By John Salemme | January 12, 2012 5:09 PM EST

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Shavkat said we’d be driving to Samarkand, five hours away. “But you’re tired, so we’ll arrive in four.” I went to buckle my seatbelt and realized it had been slashed. Strands of fiber were all that remained. I glanced at the speedometer and realized our speed was approaching 100 mph. This was the first time I thought I’d be killed.

The road was two lanes and pockmarked with craters, which we swerved between. On the sides were shepherds leading sheep, as well as occasional cows. Sometimes an animal would dart into the road and to avoid it, Ravshan would careen into oncoming traffic. Trucks, overloaded with cargo, barreled at us, belching smoke, horns blaring, missing us by feet. Every so often, we seemed to go airborne. Heaps of metal that were once cars rusted on the roadside, reminding me that things don’t always end well. But I was tired, and the hospitable thing to do was to get me into bed quickly.

My hosts began arguing and we screeched to a halt. Kamol got out and hung towels over the windows. Shavkat explained, “He’s caring for you. He doesn’t want the Sun on you.” So we raced on, towels blinding me from the inevitable crash.

Our survival surprised me. We arrived in Samarkand, where Shavkat’s uncle, Olim, awaited us with a breakfast of eggs, sausage, bread, and the usual morning beverages of coffee and vodka. After several coffees and an equal amount of vodka shots, I was allowed to lie down in Olim’s spare bedroom. I drifted into unconsciousness more akin to a coma than sleep.

The second time I thought I’d be killed was when I woke for lunch and realized that vodka wasn’t an anomaly, but a staple of all Uzbek meals. Before food was served, four toasts were made to my health and each time a mouthful of vodka was hospitably forced on me. By the time lunch was finished, I could not stand or speak. For two weeks it never ended, with every meal, every introduction – vodka – a dozen shots daily. There was no escaping.

With each toast to my health, cirrhosis approached and my health worsened.

I made the mistake of revealing my birthday one day, and vodka flowed hatefully. I woke desperate for water. I didn’t want to wake my hosts, so I drank water from the tap, which led me to the third time I was almost killed in Uzbekistan – by amoebic dysentery. I spent the next week in the latrine, grateful for the temporary reprieve from low quality vodka.

The Registan is an ancient mosque in Samarkand, its minarets 275 feet high. Due to its crumbling structure, visitors aren’t permitted inside. I was disappointed, and this was intolerable to Olim. Bribes were paid, and up we went past numerous danger signs.

I hadn’t eaten for a week — and I was back on a vodka regimen — so my mind was untrustworthy. A spiral staircase brought us to the top where we looked at the horizon. A feeble wooden structure stood between us and the edge.  I leaned against this structure to pose for a picture. Just after the picture was taken, the wood collapsed and I fell backwards onto the minaret’s edge. Another few inches and I would have fallen to certain death. That was the fourth and final time I was almost killed in Uzbekistan. We laughed on the way down, and later, with great hospitality, a toast was made to my good luck in surviving.

The Uzbeks are the kindest people I’ve ever encountered … but they will try to kill you.

John Salemme is a middle school science teacher in Billerica, Mass., where he lives with his wife Cindy and cat Bella. He has enjoyed both domestic and international travel to many U.S. states and over 50 countries. Contact John at salemme27@yahoo.com or visit his Web site at www.passportpossibilities.com.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/281044/20120112/uzbekistan-travel-uzbek-people.htm

Davronbek Hasanov

While citizens of the Russian Federation are not happy about Mr. Putin as a candidate for presidency,Uzbekistan seems a very quiet place in terms of political situation despite the fact that current president Islam Karimov has been elected as a president for more than three times already,and has been serving the nation for 21 years by now. No wonder why:Uzbekistan is the state where business investment is under a big question;it is the place where you will not find many factories;it is the place where constitution is considered as insignificant written text;it is the place where its “elected president” has been serving since 1991 although,according to the constitution,president is elected for 4 years and serves two terms. Without doubt,the opposition is suppressed and almost destroyed;otherwise,how one can rule the country for more than two decade? Is it considered democratic? What do you think?

Meanwhile,very strange things are happening in one of the rural areas of Uzbekistan. Khasan Choriev,a successful businessman and an active leader of the “Birdamlik” opposition movement,on December 29,2011 lost his 750 sheep and 150 cows in one day. On New Year Eve,twenty police officers came to his farm called “Ikhtiyor”,which he has been running successfully since 2004,in order to confiscate his property due to unpaid electric bill. They took total of 900 sheep and cows without showing any documents or court order to the farm owner.

What is more upsetting,police also took the cows and sheep that belonged to farm employees. As it was harsh winter season and most people did not have proper condition to keep the sheep and cows at small home backyard,with the permission of the farm owner,every winter season they brought their cows and sheep to the farm. Although the police was informed about this fact,they ignored it and confiscated all 900 animal found in the farm.

The daughter of the farm owner Zulayho Chorieva,who was present at the time of confiscation,recorded all events on a camera;however,her camera was taken away and destroyed by police. When she attempted to keep her camera,Ms. Chorieva was beaten up severely by several police officers. Bruise all over her body and with bloody face,Zulayho sought for medical aid,however,she was not welcomed at local hospital and got rejected to receive basic medical aid,eventually,she found a private clinic where she stayed for couple of days,but she could not fully recover afterwards.

Few days later,in January 2012,after the confiscation of 750 sheep and 150 cows,the farmer Khasan Choriev was informed that the governor of the Kashkadarya region,Uzbekistan ordered to take out his real estate too. Isn’t it too much to take for a so called 23 million soums ($9,000) “unpaid electric bill”?

Most villages in rural areas receive electricity for 2-3 hours a day at midnight while people are asleep. Therefore,according to Khasan Choriev,when the farm “Ikhtiyor” was established,he signed a contract with the Electro-Power company and made a full payment to build several electric towers along his farm and set up electric counters. Employees of the Electro-Power company partially fulfilled the agreed tasks. Since then,Mr. Choriev has neither heard of company employees,nor received any electric bills or warnings from the Electro-Power company of the region. Today the Electro-Power company denies that they had an agreement,and claims that Mr. Choriev has fake contract.

Having lost all his property in one day without any warning and court proceedings,the owner and the farm employees are ready to pay the so called “electric bill” debt,and desperately trying to win their property back;however,as the owner is considered as one of the activists of opposition movement “Birdamlik”,by all means,he is being suppressed financially and emotionally by the current government.

In an attempt to keep the crowd under a strict control,and by taking the property of a successful farmer who is well-known for his oppositional views,the government has demonstrated to common people of what happens to those who are not in favor of the current political powers. Perhaps,they assume that after seeing what had happened to a wealthy farmer who happened to be the opposition activist,common people would not dare to say anything against the rule of president Karimov. For the leader of Uzbekistan,it is a crucial moment now. It is his 21st year of service as a president. Besides,the leaders of many other countries as Egypt,Libya,Kyrgyzstan,have already been removed from the government after the national revolts,and today’s very intense political situation in neighboring Kazakhstan and Russian Federation makes Mr. Karimov take some actions to avoid similar situation happening in Uzbekistan. Apparently,Mr. President and the current ruling powers in Uzbek government decided to take immediate actions by suppressing the oppositional activists and taking out all their property. Do you think these actions are enough in order to prevent national revolts and to keep the presidency position for few more years?

Davronbek Hasanov

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