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Russia’s Federal Bailiffs Service accepted the decision of the Basmanny district court to allow Khudoberdi Nurmatov to leave Russia for a third country. The defender left the Russia and arrived in Germany on 15 February 2018.

On 9 October 2016, Ms Elena Urlaeva and her colleague Ms Malohat Eshonkulova were forcefully detained and interrogated by Olot District Department of Internal Affairs police officers in the Bukhara region in Uzbekistan. The human rights defenders were detained while monitoring, interviewing and photographing medical workers and pupils coerced to work in cotton fields by the Uzbek district authorities.

On 26 October 2015, human rights defender Mr Dmitry Tikhonov learnt that his office, located in his house, in the city of Angren, was burned down on 20 October, while he was away travelling.

His technical equipment and documentation of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan were destroyed, while all other rooms in the house remained untouched.

On 22 April 2009, approximatively at 6.30pm the five-year-old son of Yelena Urlaeva, was assaulted near his apartment building by an unknown young man who hit him with a baton on the head. The child was diagnosed as being concussed. At the children's hospital N14 of Tashkent, where Mukhammad was admitted, doctors refused to note in his medical card that the concussion was the result of an attack.