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UA 34/99 Fear for Safety/alleged ill-treatment in detention/incommunicado detention of
Mamadali Makhmudov Munira Nasriddinova (f)
U.S. Department of State Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, February 26, 1999.
On Line version of Book of Hasan B. Paksoy
ÖTEKI DÜNYA KAPISI ÖNÜNDE (Before the door of of the Other World) Memories from Uzbek Human Rights Activist Sefer Bekcan, In Turkish
Russian version of the Book: (as Word document)
On democracy in Uzbekistan
The most frequent slogan by Uzbek Parliamentarians is, "Long Live the " Silence"!" and "Long Live our smartest president". In the Uzbek constitution, there is a space for a democratic president, however in practice it does not exist. Instead there is an autocrat. There is no single branch of the government that exists without the control of the centre. Even agreements between trading firms are considered legal only after obtaining presidential approval. All of the foreign firms in Uzbekistan are subject to presidential permission.
The basis of our free market economy is black market. Bribery and corruption are foundations of our economy. An official who does not recieve and gives bribes, or those who do not engage in corruption immediately finds himself our of a job. 95% of all the population in Uzbekistan is poverty-stricken. The rich are the ones who comprise the other 5% who belong to the noemnklatura.Taht is to say, the deputies, judges and police officers. There is no middle class in the in the country. On the onde hand, tehre is a small group of bribed rich and on the other, there is a magnificent army of the poor...
In our constitution, there are articles related to the multiparty system. there are four parties whose actvities are officially permitted. All of these parties consist of old communists, which quate to "pocket parties". That is to say, they are in the pocket of the "monarch". The rael opposition parties, the ones which do not fit into "his" (the monarch, i.e. the president) pocket have for years been persecuted and terrorized.
What is the primary objection of the oppposition to the Karimov regime? During the pre-independence years, in 1988 and 1989, we asked the administration to launch reform programmes in politics and economy. Those were the reforms which would have made us step forward towards a process of gradual democartization. We have supported stability in the country. It was impossible to achieve reform withou stability. Unfortunately, the administartion misused our position. They used it instead to strenghten their control, and but there is stability. However, this stability looks more like the stability of a graveyeard (or the silence of a Mazaristan). (Salih uses here the Mazaristan, the land of graves). The word stability is a wonderful card in the hands of our dictators. Western leaders who are the fans of human rights and democracy can not oppose our dicatators in the face of this stability card.
Uzbekistan is the craddle of Turkish civilization. There are currently 23 million people living in Uzbekistan. It would be wrong to assume that these people are hungry only for bread. I would like to have my voice reach my brothers in Turkey.
Of course Turkey is right in considering Uzbekistan as brother, and so its president Karimov.However, people who are suffering under the oppression of "brother Karimov" are also your brothers. I wish Turkish government would pay more attentin to the sufferings of masses.
Short bibliography of Muhammed SalihChairman of Erk Democratic Party of Uzbekistan
Muhammed Salih and ERK, a short historical overview
A Brief overview of Uzbekistan Today
Documents on Human Rights Violations in Uzbekistan
United States State Department Uzbekistan Human Rights Report 1996
Human Rights Watch Report (May 1996) (136kb)
UZBEK ROUNDUP. Uzbek human rights activist and freelance RFE/RL correspondent Albert Mousin was detained on 24 February by Moscow police at the request of Uzbek authorities, RFE/RL reported the same day. Moscow police say Mousin is charged with "intentionally spreading falsehood undermining the state and society" under article 191 of Uzbekistan's legal code.
OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 39, Part I, 25 February 1997
MOUSIN TO BE EXTRADITED, ROTAR DENIED ACCREDITATION.
Recently detained in Moscow by Russian law enforcement officials, Albert Mousin, a
freelance reporter working for RFE/RL, Komsomolskaya pravda, and Ekho
Moskvy, is to be extradited to Uzbekistan, Radio Rossii reported on 24
February. The same day, RFE/RL reported that Russia's branch of the PEN
club has called for the 44-year-old human rights advocate and reporter
to be released. They claim that Mousin is a citizen of Kazakstan, not
Uzbekistan, and that it is "not the first time" Russian law enforcement
agencies are helping Central Asian and Transcaucasian governments
"settle scores" with their political opponents. Meanwhile, the Tajik
authorities have denied accreditation to Nezavisimaya gazeta reporter
Igor Rotar on the grounds he has been "unscrupulous and biased" in his
reporting on certain events that took place in Tajikistan, according to
a 21 February Nezavisimaya gazeta monitored by the BBC. Nezavisimaya
gazeta has expressed bewilderment at the decision. -- Lowell Bezanis
25feb1997: Uzbek Opposition letter on detention of Albert Musin to Yuri Skuratov Procurator General of the Russian Federation and Human Rights organizations and US officials
A Bibliography of Albert Musin:
KARIMOVS CRACKDOWN An article of Albert Musin: 26 May 1995 (Moscow Times)
28 feb1997 A letter of Union of Councils to President Yeltsin
03 March1997 Update on Albert Musin:Moscow Police Fail to Release Human Rights Journalist Despite Uzbek Embassys Declaration that Charges are Dropped
07 March1997 Albert Musin: Released
United States State Department Kazakstan Human Rights Report 1996
United States State Department Kirgizstan Human Rights Report 1996
OMRI DAILY DIGEST No. 40, Part I, 26 February 1997
KYRGYZ POLITICIAN RELEASED. The chairman of the Erkin Kyrgyzstan Party,
Topchubek Turgunaliev, was released from custody in Bishkek on 25
February, RFE-RL reported. Accused of abuse of power, embezzlement, and
forgery, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment before the republic's
Supreme Court overturned the second two charges and reduced the sentence
on 18 February. Turgunaliev must reside in Bishkek and report to the
authorities on a monthly basis; when two-thirds of his term is
completed, it could be suspended. -- Naryn Idinov
OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 40, Part I, 26 February 1997
CORRECTION: The OMRI Daily Digest of 26 February incorrectly reported
that Topchubek Turgunaliev, the chairman of the Erkin Kyrgyzstan party,
will reside in Bishkek and report monthly to the authorities. In fact,
he is being sent to Penal Colony no. 34, 30 km from Bishkek, to serve
his four-year sentence, RFE/RL reported on 26 February.
United States State Department Turkmenistan Human Rights Report 1996
24feb1997: Turkmenistan kills 146 demonstrators?
24feb1997: Reaction of Eric Sievers on: Turkmenistan kills 146 demonstrators?
28feb1997: Raection of Valdimir Blenkin on: Turkmenistan kills 146 demonstrators?
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