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 […]

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is glad to announce that a Small Grants Program for Uzbekistan has been established.Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded in 1977. The activity of the NHC is based on the principles of the Helsinki Declaration from 1975, signed by 35 European and North-American countries on the Conference on Security and Cooperation […]

Letter from Javhar Yusufjon Oghlu, the 10-year-old son of a father who is a poet, Nobel Prize nominee, and jailed in Uzbekistan.
Dear America,
I am 10 years old but I know that there are bad people who are hurting, beating, trying to kill, and putting my daddy in jail. When I miss my daddy […]

May 13, 2005… Three years have passed since the bloody suppression of a civic demonstration in the center of Andijon city, Uzbekistan. According to different independent sources, several hundreds of peaceful demonstrators were shot dead by government troops on this day. Many people fled to neighboring Kyrgyzstan, where UNHCR helped them to find an […]

It seems likely that the British Government will support the continued suspension of the visa ban on Uzbek officials when the matter comes up for discussion at the end of the month. On 29 April the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) will meet in Luxembourg to discuss a range of affairs […]

An Uzbek human rights activist has urged the EU not to soften its line on Uzbekistan. Writing in the guardian, Abdujalil Boymatov - who has been granted refugee status in Ireland - argues that, ‘Repressive as Soviet rule was, I can say that the regime of President Karimov is five times more repressive.’
Boymatov’s rap […]

A new source of information about our country’s life, including domestic and foreign policy, human rights and its violations, national security, history, economy, etc. was founded by immigrants living abroad in order to bring news for the international community about Uzbekistan in more or less objective way. First post was posted on the 21st […]

The Embassy of the United States in Tashkent makes a lot to provide locals (ordinary people) with access to information. Sometimes they try to provide with access to banned sources of information such as blocked internet sites and banned international reports [of the US State Department and international organizations].
Information Resource Center (IRC) based at […]

This video is for Uzbekistanis abroad, who miss Uzbekistan, their motherland. Today, we have so many Uzbek citizens living abroad. It is not because now Uzbeks have more money to travel or study in foreign countries. No, it is because a great part of population has to leave their motherland (in Uzbekistan, this word […]

To the celebration of 2200 years of Tashkent in 2009 the authorities and its more or less not well-thought orders made the population think about their future in this country: if it’s safe or not?
The visit of militia lieutenant early in the morning forced me to think if I’ve done something wrong with the […]