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Uzbekistan - Ongoing detention and deterioration in health of human rights defender Alisher Karamatov

Front Line is profoundly concerned by reports received concerning the continued detention and deteriorating health condition of human rights defender, Mr Alisher Karamatov, who has been detained since June 2006 and has been denied necessary medical treatment. Alisher Karamatov is the Chairperson of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU), Mirzaabad region. He has served two years of a nine year sentence for “extortion” following a trial which international observers defined as “deeply flawed” and “unfair”.  Read More

Uzbekistan – Human rights defenders arrested and fined for organising peaceful protest

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports received the authorities arrested, tried and fined ten human rights defenders following their organisation of, and participation in, a peaceful demonstration in Tashkent on 6 December 2008. The defenders were members of the Ezgulik Human Rights Society, the Committee of Prisoners of Conscience and Uzbek Human Rights Alliance.  Read More

The Uzbek government has a long-standing record of torture, controlling, intimidating, and arbitrarily suspending or interfering with the work of civil society groups, the media, human rights defenders, and opposition political parties. Ill-treatment and serious procedural violations against detainees as well as harsh treatment of human rights defenders and political opponents is widespread. In 2003, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture characterised torture as "systematic" in Uzbekistan.

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