Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan: Physical attack against human rights defender Mr Dmitry Tikhonov

Posted on 2010/02/26

Human rights defender Mr Dmitry Tikhonov was attacked on 23 February 2010. Dmitry Tikhonov is a member of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan and actively monitors the human rights situation in the town of Angren in the Tashkent region. The Human Rights Alliance works on several human rights issues including torture, access to justice, right to a fair trial, economic and social rights, and the rights of vulnerable groups. 

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Uzbekistan: Harsh sentencing of human rights defender, Mr Gaybullo Jalilov

Posted on 2010/02/03

Human rights defender Mr Gaybullo Jalilov has been sentenced to nine years in prison after a closed trial on 18 January 2010. Gaybullo Jalilov is a member of the Karshi branch of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan. 

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The Uzbek government has a long-standing record of torture, controlling, intimidating, and arbitrarily suspending or interfering with the work of civil society groups, the media, human rights defenders, and opposition political parties. Ill-treatment and serious procedural violations against detainees as well as harsh treatment of human rights defenders and political opponents is widespread. In 2003, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture characterised torture as "systematic" in Uzbekistan.