Gulambek Umarov is a son of Sanjar Umarov, a prominent businessman and a leader of opposition group Sunshine Coalition. Sanjar Umarov has been detained in prison in Uzbekistan since 2005.
The speech was delivered on July 24, 2008 at the United Nations in conjunction with the commemoration of the Declaration on Prisoners of Conscience.
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Recently, all Uzbek internet forums were full of rumors about FC Barcelona’s striker Samuel Eto’o coming to Uzbekistan to sign a contract with Kuruvchi, a leading football team in Uzbek premier league. Today, at least the half of the rumor is turned out to be truth - Samuel Eto’o escorted with other three representative […]
According to the information coming from Kagan district of Bukhara, residents of the district are being evacuated again. They had once been evacuated after the explosions occurred in the nearby Soviet-time ammunition storage that was left in Uzbekistan after the Afghan war. However, after few days, they got back to their homes, as the […]
Here is the video made by a Bukhara resident the day after the explosions in Kagan town of Bukhara region. He claims that this is a bomb shell that was thrown to 15 kilometers during the explosions. It does not really look like a bomb shell. However, that fact that it flew 15 km […]
RAPID RESPONSE GROUP (RRG) FOR PREVENTION OF TORTURE IN UZBEKISTAN
STATEMENT ON EMERGENCY SITUATION IN KAGAN DISTRICT OF BUKHARA REGION
It has already been reported that at night of July 10th 2008 in a rocket-artillery warehouse of the military unit of the Ministry of Defence located in Kagan district of Bukhara region an ignition took place […]
… or blogging is dangerous for tourism in Uzbekistan.
Everyone, who is interested in Central Asia, knows that Samarkand and Bukhara are the most ancient and history-rich places in the region. And they dream about visiting these extremely beautiful places to trace the history of Central Asian nations themselves.
Today, Bukhara and Samarkard are one of […]
Earlier, I wrote about the explosions in ammunition storage in Kagan town that is located in 12 km from Bukhara city. The explosions were the result of a fire in the ammunition storage, which originally used to be an ammunition storage for shells and warheads for Soviet military operations Afghanistan. After the withdrawal of […]
Today early in the morning, I was chatting in G’chat with my friend from Bukhara. At about 2 am (Uzbek time) he was suddenly gone and did not answer my messages for like 10-15 minutes. I was already thinking that he fell asleep, but he returned back writing that there were a series of […]
Uzbek people, and Central Asian nations in general, are known for their philanthropy. The Shomakhmudovs are one of the examples to prove my point. They adopted 14 orphans of different nationalities from the orphanage that was moved to Tashkent from Russia during the World War II. A monument for the Shomakhmudovs used to be […]
Recently, all leading state-controlled TV companies in Uzbekistan had broadcast an about hour long program about the Radio Ozodlik (RFE/RL Uzbek service), where they accused the RFE/RL Uzbek service staff of being “traitors” who bring “unfriendly” messages into the country and thus attempt to destabilize the situation in Uzbekistan. The program was broadcast at […]
