DEC. 30 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Media quoted a human rights group in Uzbekistan saying that in 2010 39 prisoners died of torture in the country’s prisons. The Independent Human Rights Defenders Group said 370 Muslims had been jailed on inflated charges of belonging to radical groups. The Uzbek government did not comment.
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(News report from Issue No. 21, published on Jan. 4 2011)
DEC. 15 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — A court in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh jailed 5 more Uzbek men for murder during ethnic violence in June. Human rights groups have said that Uzbeks are being unfairly punished for the violence during which about 400 people, mainly Uzbeks, died.
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(News report from Issue No. 20, published on Dec. 20 2010)
NOV. 24 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh sentenced 17 ethnic Uzbeks to life in prison and two more to 25 years for the murder of 16 Kyrgyz during rioting in June. About 370 mainly ethnic Uzbeks died in the ethnic violence. Human rights groups have said Uzbeks are being blamed unfairly for the violence.
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(News report from Issue No. 17, published on Nov. 29 2010)
NOV. 18/19 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Azerbaijan released two bloggers from jail whose imprisonment in November 2009 for hooliganism triggered an international outcry. Human rights groups said the authorities arrested the bloggers after they made a satire about the government. The court released them but did not overturn their conviction.
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(News report from Issue No. 16, published on Nov. 22 2010)
NOV. 18 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Alongside China, Russia, Cuba, Iraq and Morocco, Kazakhstan will not attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo next month, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. This year the committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident angering China. China is one of Kazakhstan’s biggest investors.
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(News report from Issue No. 16, published on Nov. 22 2010)
NOV. 9 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – Germany’s human rights commissioner called on the International Labour Organisation, a UN agency, to investigate Uzbekistan for using child labour to pick its cotton harvest. This is the sharpest criticism by a leading European figure of Uzbekistan’s alleged use of child labour. Uzbekistan has previously promised to stop the practice.
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(News report from Issue No. 15, published on Nov. 15 2010)
NOV. 11 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in Azerbaijan agreed with the European Court for Human Rights that sentences against an opposition newspaper editor for terrorism, tax evasion and racial hatred were illegal but it also upheld a separate 30-month sentence for drug possession and kept him in jail.
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(News report from Issue No. 15, published on Nov. 15 2010)
OCT. 15 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Uzbekistan convicted a reporter of slander, insult and disturbing the peace. The judge fined Abdulmalik Boboyev, who works for US-funded Voice of America, $10,000 but did not jail him. Mr Boboyev was the second Uzbek reporter convicted but not sent to jail by Uzbek authorities in a week, the same week an Uzbek delegation visited Washington for talks.
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(News report from Issue No. 12, published on Oct. 21 2010)
OCT. 7 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — A reporter for U.S.-funded radio station Voice of America went on trial in Uzbekistan accused of slander and posing a threat to public order, news agencies quoted a local human rights group as saying. Reporter Abdumalik Boboyev faces up to eight years in jail.
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(News report from Issue No. 10, published on Oct. 7 2010)
SEPT. 15 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — A court in south Kyrgyzstan gave an Uzbek rights activist and 7 other defendants a life jail sentence for killing a policeman during ethnic clashes in June. Human rights groups said the trial had been unfair and the defendants had been beaten.
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(News report from Issue No. 7, published on Sept. 16 2010)
