UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2016
OSCE HDIM statement: Human rights in Uzbekistan after Karimov
President Karimov’s sudden death in September brought to an end his 27-year long rule which was marked by profound disregard for fundamental rights and...
KazakhstanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2011
Uzbekistan: EU should request protection of the rights of forcibly returned individuals
Tashkent, Almaty, Brussels and The Hague, 23 June 2011. On the eve of this year’s EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue, which will take place in...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2016
Kyrgyzstan: IPHR statement on Supreme Court ruling on the case of Azimjan Askarov
Today’s ruling by Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court to send back the case of human rights defender Azimjan Askarov for re-trial, but keep him behind bars...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Human rights defender Oyub Titiev convicted following unfair and absurd judicial process
Today a court in Chechnya, Russia, sentenced human rights defender Oyub Titiev to four years in prison on trumped-up charges after an unfair trial....
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2017
Azerbaijan: Rights groups demand justice for tortured journalist
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov and call on Azerbaijan’s authorities to immediately investigate the case...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2012
New case of harassment of independent Uzbek journalist
Brussels, The Hague 10 April 2012. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) deplore the conviction of Uzbek journalist...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2010
Joint statement on religiously motivated persecution in Uzbekistan
Brussels 7 December 2010. A statement published today by the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan and the International Partnership for Human...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2021
Azerbaijan: Rule 9.2 communication to the Committee of Ministers of the CoE (Muradova group...
International Partnership for Human Rights filed a Rule 9.2 submission with respect to the Muradova (no. 22684/05), Mammadov (Jalaloglu) (no. 34445/04) and Mikayil Mammadov (no. 4762/05) group of...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2017
Human rights changes in Uzbekistan: more piecemeal than systemic
This update covers developments affecting civic space in Uzbekistan from July to September 2017. It has been prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2017
Uzbekistan: Newspaper editor freed after being held for 18 years
The Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), Freedom House, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki...