Dec 21, 2009
... 22&year=2009&country=7731"Freedom in the World 2009: Uzbekistan Freedom of the Press 2009: Uzbekistan Uzbekistan-WEB-full-report.pdf"Nations in Transit 2009: Uzbekistan Freedom House, an independent nongovernmental ...
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Oct 28, 2009
... of the Press 2008: Uzbekistan Uzbekistan-WEB-full-report.pdf"Nations in Transit 2009: Uzbekistan Freedom House, an independent nongovernmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world, has been monitoring political rights and civil liberties in Uzbekistan since 1990./p ...
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Jan 13, 2006
... activities in Uzbekistan for the next six months. The Uzbek Ministry of Justice charged Freedom House with violations of Uzbek laws, including Uzbekistan's law covering NGOs. Cited violations included allowing human rights defenders free access to the Internet. Charges also included noncompliance with a secret decree, issued by the Uzbekistan government ...
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Feb 9, 2006
... civil court in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, yesterday rejected Freedom House's final appeal of a six-month suspension its activities in Uzbekistan. The judgment requires the organization to suspend its activities in the increasingly repressive Central Asian country until July 2006. The appeal was a final attempt to maintain Freedom House programs in Uzbekistan following a January 11 ...
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Aug 11, 2006
... government." Uzbekistan's human rights record has significantly deteriorated since the violent conflict in May 2005 in the eastern Uzbek town of Andijon, where the Uzbek authorities are believed to have killed hundreds of civilians. The five individuals returned to Uzbekistan by the Kyrgyz authorities were part of a larger group of refugees who fled Uzbekistan during the Andijon unrest ...
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Oct 10, 2003
... quot; Freedom House background reports on Uzbekistan can be found online at: Freedom in the World 2003: Uzbekistan Nations in Transit 2003: Uzbekistan a href="http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm ...
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May 17, 2005
... p"Uzbekistan is one of the world's least open societies," said Ms. Windsor. "The fact that so little is known about the events of the past few days, either inside Uzbekistan or outside its borders, betrays a totalitarian environment that has changed little since the collapse of the Soviet Union." Freedom House ...
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Nov 23, 2003
... Uzbekistan, Freedom House rated the country "Not Free." Freedom House background reports on Uzbekistan are available online: Freedom in the World 2003:Uzbekistan Nations in Transit 2003: Uzbekistan ...
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Dec 8, 2008
... Uzbekistan Freedom of the Press 2008: Uzbekistan Freedom House, an independent nongovernmental organization that supports the expansion of freedom in the world, has been monitoring political rights and civil liberties in Uzbekistan since 1990. Freedom ...
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Jan 30, 2007
... in Uzbekistan since it became an independent country in 1991. For more information on Uzbekistan, visit: Freedom in the World 2006: Uzbekistan Nations in Transit 2006: Uzbekistan a href ...
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Dec 10, 2007
... said at that meeting, but of Freedom House's record in Uzbekistan. Freedom House has never compromised our work to support freedom and human rights in Uzbekistan or elsewhere in the world to support any "official"American position. Freedom House has been a consistent and harsh critic of the human rights situation in Uzbekistan, as clearly demonstrated in press releases and in our ...
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Apr 16, 2007
... official interrogation had led to discovery of standard Human Rights Watch reports on her personal laptop, documents deemed illegal in Uzbekistan. Following the interrogation, Niyazova fled to Kyrgyzstan to escape possible arrest but returned to Uzbekistan once her lawyer assured her that the government would not bring charges against her. She was promptly arrested upon her return and now faces an ...
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Mar 13, 2002
... most notably the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The IMU espouses a revolutionary ideology supported with Saudi money, including heavy cash infusions from Uzbeks who have settled in Saudi Arabia and, according to author Ahmed Rashid, are close to former Saudi security chief Prince Turki al-Faisal. In addition, Uzbekistan has seen the rapidly growing appeal of Hizb-ut-tahrir ...
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Apr 28, 2006
... was particularly evident in countries with regimes that place a premium on controlling the airwaves. Among the Not Free states, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan experienced declines. Uzbekistan and Russia suffered the most dramatic backslide. Russia slipped due to the Kremlin's ongoing obstruction of journalists from reporting on sensitive topics and its tightening ...
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Jun 3, 2005
... Azerbaijan, Belarus, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is precisely the wrong response in such febrile environments, and bound to generate far more alarming problems. Mr. Karimov's use of indiscriminate force against civilians in eastern Uzbekistan last month is a particularly heinous example. The very forces that helped advance the peaceful civic movements in Georgia ...
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Jan 19, 2006
... Ukraine; and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in particular, have enormous reform challenges. Meanwhile, in contrast to struggles for reform in these countries, leaders in capitals such as Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Minsk, Belarus; and Moscow are pursuing a dramatically different agenda. Last year saw a raft of measures, all designed to bring about even greater obedience from independent forces in society ...
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Sep 29, 2004
... Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova, the impact of corruption is a matter of grave concern. In profoundly corrupt settings, leaders go to extraordinary lengths to cling to power for fear of prosecution by their successors. In Tajikistan, President Emomali Rakhmonov pushed through a referendum last year that allows him to stay in power through 2020. In Uzbekistan, President Islam ...
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Mar 29, 2002
... in Uzbekistan, for example, tens of thousands of Muslims flock to the Hizb ut-Tahrir, an underground party that advocates a global jihad. More worrying is the violent Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which seeks to take power in many Central Asian states and indeed may find fertile ground in nearby Tajikistan, ravaged by civil war. Many fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fought ...
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Mar 3, 2008
... credited with 80 percent of the vote. Uzbekistan's constitution currently states that the president is permitted to serve only two seven-year terms. President Islam Karimov, who assumed power as first secretary of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic's Communist Party in 1989, was elected president of independent Uzbekistan in 1992. In 1995, Karimov extended his presidential term ...
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Oct 24, 2006
... in "Freedom of the Press," Freedom House's annual global survey of media independence. In this period nine of the 12 non-Baltic former Soviet states' press-freedom ratings have deteriorated. Uzbekistan, Russia, and Belarus registered the steepest declines. Overall, 10 of the 12 post-Soviet states are ranked "Not Free," indicating that these countries do not provide basic guarantees and protections ...
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May 15, 2009
... by urging the United States to continue playing a critical role in promoting human rights in Uzbekistan and around the world. At an event organized by Freedom House and Human Rights Watch May 13, McCain voiced concern that the Obama administration might become militarily dependent on Uzbekistan and fail to publically identify its human rights abuses. The senator was joined by Lutfullo Shamsutdinov ...
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... Uzbekistan was incorporated into the Russian empire by the late nineteenth century. The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924, and its southeastern portion was detached and organized as the separate Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic five years later. On December 29, 1991, more than 98 percent of the country’s electorate approved a popular referendum on Uzbekistan ...
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... Islam Karimov announced that he had set no deadline for the withdrawal of the estimated 1,500 U.S. forces from Khanabad air base in southern Uzbekistan. Located along the ancient trade route of the famous Silk Road, Uzbekistan was incorporated into Russia by the late 1800s. The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924, and its eastern region was detached and ...
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... Road, Uzbekistan was incorporated into Russia by the late 1800s. The Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924, and its eastern region was detached and made the separate Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic five years later. On December 29, 1991, more than 98 percent of the country's electorate approved a popular referendum on Uzbekistan's ...
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... Silk Road, Uzbekistan was incorporated into Russia by the late 1800s. The Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924, and its eastern region was detached and made the separate Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic five years later. On December 29, 1991, more than 98 percent of the country's electorate approved a popular referendum on Uzbekistan's independence ...
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... famous Silk Road, Uzbekistan was incorporated into Russia by the late 1800s. The Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1924, and its eastern region was detached and made a separate Tajik Soviet republic five years later. On December 29, 1991, more than 98 percent of the country's electorate approved a popular referendum on the Uzbekistan's independence. In ...
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Uzbekistan's continued cooperation with the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign in 2002 led to American commitments of increased financial assistance in exchange for promises from President Islam Karimov of political reforms. Although Uzbekistan appeared to have made certain human rights-related concessions--including the abolition of official censorship, the registration of a prominent human rights ...
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... reengaged with Uzbekistan after a period of very strained relations following a violent government crackdown in the city of Andijon in 2005. On the domestic front, no notable changes occurred during the year, as Uzbekistan remained marked by repressive state controls and the denial of basic human rights and freedoms. Uzbekistan gained ...
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... Islam Karimov set the tone in the wake of Andijon, alleging that Uzbekistan was under "information attack" by hostile foreign powers. Uzbek authorities imposed a news blackout on Andijon during the unrest, detaining and expelling local and foreign correspondents from the city, cutting off broadcasts by foreign media within Uzbekistan, and blocking internet sites. Virtually all local media are ...
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... softened Andijon-related sanctions despite a marked lack of progress on human rights in Uzbekistan. Also that month, Karimov revived long-flagging regional ties with a visit to Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan 2008
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... and many are in exile abroad. The Sunshine Uzbekistan opposition movement was effectively smashed in 2006 with the conviction of its leader, businessman Sanjar Umarov, on a variety of economic charges. Corruption is widespread in the government apparatus, with bribery a common practice to obtain lucrative positions. Uzbekistan was ranked 151 out of 163 countries surveyed in Transparency ...
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