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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a translation of Elena’s post that was originally published here.
Recently, Avas Saipov, father of a journalist Alisher Saipov, who was murdered on October 24, 2007, sent open letter to the presidents of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Information Agency Fergana.ru published excerpts of Avas Saipov’s letter. In his letter, Saipov senior addresses the president of […]
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 […]
Last Friday (May 16) police in France, Germany and the Netherlands arrested 10 men suspected of providing funds to the Islamic Movment of Uzbekistan (IMU) (AP). Eight of the suspects were arrested in France and one each in Germany and the Netherlands. Interestingly, at least nine of the arrestees are believed to be of […]
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 […]
