These reports give an overview of the human rights situation in Uzbekistan
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Title: Uzbekistan: A Briefing on Current Human Rights Concerns
Organisation: Amnesty International
Date: May 2010
As the fifth anniversary of the so-called Andijan events was approaching in May 2010, Amnesty International issued a report that provided background information on key human rights concerns that were then persisting in Uzbekistan. This report concludes that there has been a serious deterioration in the human rights situation in Uzbekistan since the Andijan events in May 2005.
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Title: Denial of Justice in Uzbekistan: An Assessment of the Human Rights Situation and National System of Protection of Fundamental Rights
Organisations: World Organisation Against Torture – Europe (OMCT-Europe) and the Legal Aid Society
Date: April 2005
This report contains a detailed review concerning the compliance by state organs of the Republic of Uzbekistan with international obligations assumed through the ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on September 28, 1995. The first section concentrates on the main inalienable civil rights determined by the Covenant, including the situation of vulnerable groups, while the rest of the report examines the human rights protection mechanisms at the national level and offers recommendations.
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Title: Human Rights in Uzbekistan – A Record that Jeopardizes Security
Organisation: International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
Date: March 2003
This report details why Uzbekistan’s human rights record was among the worst in the Organization for Security and Cooperation on Europe (OSCE) region. It looks at freedom of expression and the media; the right to peaceful assembly; the right to a fair trial; torture, ill-treatment and police misconduct; conditions in prisons and detention facilities; religious intolerance, specifically against independent Muslims; and the persecution of human rights defenders.
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