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On September 15, 2025, the Information Service of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Oliy Majlis published a statement in response to Freedom for Eurasia’s publication on the situation of convicted activist Zhumasapar Dadabaev. We appreciate the Ombudsman’s decision to respond to our message. The case of prisoner Zhumasapar Dadebaev raises grave human rights concerns that demand […]

Freedom for Eurasia has received troubling news that Zhumasapar Dadebaev, a political prisoner from Karakalpakstan, has been moved to the Specialized Prison Hospital No. 23 in Tashkent’s Yashnabad district. This information comes from his father, Egenmurat Dadebaev, who on 2 September 2025 filed an official complaint with the Ombudsperson of Uzbekistan. In his appeal, he

Zhumasapar Dadebaev, an ethnic Turkmen activist from Karakalpakstan, was abducted in January 2022 while seeking asylum in Turkey by Uzbek special forces. In 2023 he was charged with Article 150 – war propaganda, Article 153 – genocide, Article 155 Part 1 – terrorism,  Article 156 Part 2 – incitement of national or religious hatred by

On 9 of November 2023, political prisoner Zhumasapar Dadebaev, sentenced in Uzbekistan to 12 years for supporting the ideas of Karakalpakstan’s sovereignty on the Internet, called his Tashkent based lawyer Sergei Mayorov from the colony. Mayorov represented his interests in the appellate court. Dadebaev said that he “felt better,” and his treatment by the administration is

Freedom of Eurasia reports that Karakalpak activist Tleubike Yuldasheva, who is seeking asylum in Kazakhstan, has informed us that she has recently noticed surveillance near her residence. The surveillance was conducted from a car with Uzbek state license plates, specifically from the Karakalpakstan region. Yuldasheva also reported that a few days ago, five individuals—two Uzbek,

19 July 2023 Less than 10 days have passed since the presidential “elections” in Uzbekistan, when the special services resumed pressure on Karakalpak activists. On July 17, in the Karauzyak district, a search was made in the house of Bagdatbai Ismailov, the head of the informal Karakalpak Alpamys party, and his phone was confiscated for