Uzbekistan human rights

Although protests this year in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan took place in different contexts, with different triggers, there are some similarities worth highlighting.

Several bloggers have been deprived of their liberty because they used social media platforms to air criticisms in Uzbekistan.

Despite thousands reportedly released since 2016, an estimated 2,000 remain jailed in Uzbekistan for political and religious reasons.

A new report catalogues the use of forced psychiatric detention to repress human rights activists in Uzbekistan, laying out the cases of six individuals to illustrate the abusive practice.

Tashkent has assisted Western countries in evacuating some Afghans, but Uzbekistan can and should do more. 

A U.S. trip by Uzbekistan’s foreign minister highlights the gap between Tashkent’s rhetoric and reality on human rights.

The working group called on Uzbek authorities to immediately release the former diplomat.

A month after being brutally beaten, Bazarov was released from the hospital and swiftly charged for insulting his old school in an October 2020 TikTok video.

The benefits -- zero tariffs on a range of goods -- come with rights monitoring requirements of shortcomings Uzbekistan may have difficulty improving.

Tashkent’s continued authoritarian habits undermine positive steps.

Uzbekistan undoubtedly needs to continue implementing recent initiated reforms, but its progress is promising.