World Report 2024: Rights Trends in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan's human rights record deteriorated in 2023, with a notable increase in the harassment and prosecutions of bloggers and journalists.
Uzbekistan's human rights record deteriorated in 2023, with a notable increase in the harassment and prosecutions of bloggers and journalists.
Grave rights violations such as torture, politically motivated imprisonment, and forced labor in the cotton fields remain widespread.
Uzbekistan's second president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, assumed the presidency in September 2016, following the death of Islam Karimov – the...
Abdurakhmon Tashanov, another prominent rights defender, was ordered to pay several thousand dollars in a civil defamation case for an innocuous Facebook post.
The pace of human rights reforms in Uzbekistan stalled and backtracked on some aspects in 2021, especially in the months leading up to presidential elections.
Authorities in Uzbekistan continued to restrict and suppress independent human rights activism and freedom of expression, targeting activists, bloggers,...
This letter outlines several areas of human rights concern and proposes recommendations to improve Uzbekistan's compliance with its...
Government authorities increasingly stifled human rights activism in 2024, targeting activists, bloggers, and others with unfounded criminal charges.
The Uzbek government during President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's first year in office has taken some positive steps to improve the human rights...
Stalled legal reforms, continued restrictions on freedom of speech, and the authorities' heavy-handed response to July 2022 protests in the autonomous...
International human-rights NGO that has documented forced labor and other labor-rights abuses in Uzbekistan and publicly supported reforms and accountability measures.