Annual Report 2012
The state of the world's human rights

Uzbekistan

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

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Report 2011

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Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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Kazakhstan: Ethnic Uzbeks at risk of torture if returned: Further ...
10 June 2011

Kazakhstan extradited 28 ethnic Uzbeks to Uzbekistan on 9 June 2011, where they are at real risk of torture. Four more ethnic Uzbek men are also at risk of forcible ...

Urgent Action       EUR 57/002/2011

Report 2011: Amnesty International at 50 says historic change on ...
13 May 2011

Amnesty International's annual report details how the rise of social media is fuelling a new activism that repressive governments are struggling to control.

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Kazakhstan: Further information: 25 soon face extradition to ...
18 March 2011

Twenty-five of the 30 ethnic Uzbek asylum-seekers and refugees detained on 9 June 2010 could be extradited to Uzbekistan in the next few days, where they would ...

Urgent Action       EUR 57/001/2011

Ethnic Uzbek activist jailed for life on fabricated charges ...
16 September 2010

Azimzhan Askarov, director of the human rights organization Vozdukh (Air), convicted of involvement in the murder of a policeman after an unfair trial.

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Ukraine: Uzbekistani asylum-seekers at risk in Ukraine
12 July 2010

Umid Khamroev, Kosim Dadakhanov, Shodilbek Soibzhonov and Utkir Akramov are detained in Ukraine and are all at risk of forcible return from Ukraine to Uzbekistan ...

Urgent Action       EUR 50/009/2010

Uzbekistani asylum-seekers at risk of extradition from Ukraine and ...
6 July 2010

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 04/002/2010. 6 July 2010. Uzbekistani asylum-seekers at risk of extradition from Ukraine and Kazakhstan. ...

Public Statement       EUR 04/002/2010

Uzbekistan returning refugees to Kyrgyzstan
24 June 2010

The Uzbekistani authorities are reported to be forcibly returning refugees who fled to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan following the violence that engulfed southern ...

Urgent Action       EUR 62/005/2010

Uzbekistan: Worrying reports about Uzbekistan expelling refugees ...
24 June 2010

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 62/004/2010. 24 June 2010. Worrying reports about Uzbekistan expelling refugees to Kyrgyzstan. ...

Public Statement       EUR 62/004/2010

Uzbekistan must halt forcible return of refugees to Kyrgyzstan ...
24 June 2010

Government urged not to expel, coerce or persuade refugees to go back to their homes while fears persist of continuing instability in the south of the country.

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