Human Rights Dispatch May 15, 2026 Guinea-Bissau Opposition Leader Detained, Militia Atrocities Devastate Congo, Uzbek Court Extends Sentence HRF condemns the campaign of mass atrocities perpetrated by an Islamic State-affiliated militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). HRF deplores the failure of the DRC regime and the international community to protect the millions of people caught between armed groups and Congolese armed forces, even as a UN Fact-Finding Mission found all sides to be responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Op-Ed May 6, 2026 My Brother’s 16-Year Sentence Was Not Enough for Uzbekistan. Now They Want Him to Disappear. Dauletmurat Tajimuratov was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2023. Last week 2.5 years were added to his sentence.
Press Release Apr 8, 2025 HRF succeeds in Uzbekistan case: UN calls for immediate release of Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) received a favorable opinion from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD), which found that Uzbekistan’s detention of Karakalpak activist and lawyer, Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, is arbitrary and violates fundamental international human rights law.
Publication Apr 17, 2018 A Hopeful Moment for Uzbekistan (The New York Times) – It is a measure of how repressive Uzbekistan was under its first post-Soviet president, Islam Karimov, that the first, tentative steps by his successor to…
Publication Apr 2, 2018 As Authoritarianism Spreads, Uzbekistan Goes the Other Way (The New York Times)– Unraveling a police state is never easy, and just how fraught the process can be has been playing out in a basement cell in Uzbekistan, a…
News Dec 19, 2017 Uzbekistan Forces State Workers to Subscribe to State-Run Newspapers (Radio Free Europe) – In Uzbekistan, where media has remained tightly controlled by the government even decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, public-sector workers say they still don’t have the freedom to choose whether to subscribe to state-run newspapers.
News Oct 18, 2025 Why Uzbek Government Still Forces People To Pick Cotton Can you imagine living in a place where every year the government forces you to pick 50 kilos of cotton, every day, for 12 straight days, for just 5 cents a kilo? That’s the reality in Uzbekistan.
