Tag: Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is being called to release a journalist and others civilians “detained solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom…

Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev (pictured), has consolidated his power by sacking Tashkent’s repressive security chief, Rustam Inoyatov, head of the…

Russia’s Supreme Court has cancelled a deportation order for Ali Feruz, whose real name is Hudoberdi Nurmatov, a gay Uzbek…

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is expected to visit Tajikistan, the only Central Asian neighbour he has not visited in his…

Uzbekistan’s government has rapidly disowned the Uzbek immigrant was accused of killing eight people in the New York lorry attack…

Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Manhattan by an Uzbek has put repressive Uzbekistan and wider Central Asia under further scrutiny as…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that Uzbekistan has recalled some students from forced labour in its notorious cotton fields, but…

Uzbekistan has freed a prominent dissident from jail while an opposition news source said one of its contributors had been…

Uzbekistan is abandoning an experiment introduced earlier this year that relaxed censorship on state television. Tolerance for live questioning of…

No fresh details have arisen from Uzbekistan about the fate of Gulnara Karimova (pictured), 45, the eldest daughter of former…

Erkin Musaev, a UN employee and former government civil servant, who was tortured and jailed for 11 years in Uzbekistan,…

Uzbekistan is reportedly removing large numbers of people from its blacklist of potential militants and political dissidents, in a further…

An openly gay journalist for Russia’s only independent newspaper has appealed to a court to grant him refugee status in…

The British Museum has helped to recover a medieval Islamic artefact that appeared in a London gallery after it was…

The EU and Uzbekistan are to hold the highest-level political meeting in Brussels since the death of Uzbek dictator Islam…