Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

Dauletmurat Tajimuratov, Karakalpak lawyer and Human Rights Defender was unlawfully imprisoned for demanding the right tof Karakalpakstan people to secede from Uzbekistan preserved in the Constitution. He opposed to the attempts by the Uzbek authorities to remove this paragraph from the Constitution through constitutional reform. These attempts led to protests in Karakalpakstan, which were violently […]

Freedom for Eurasia received alarming reports about the state of health of another political prisoner, civil society activist Saadatdin Reimov, who is serving his sentence in a penal colony 34 in Kashkardaryia region. He suffered a heart attack in April 2024, but the colony administration prevented his hospitalisation and failed to provide proper medical help

Taking into consideration the failing health and repetitive threats received by Dauletmurat Tajimuratov from associates and administration of the current prison, we urgently request Uzbekistan’s authorities to reconsider his place of detention in accordance with Article 58 of the Penal Enforcement Code, “Separate detention of convicts in penal institutions for former court employees and law

Karakalpak lawyer, Human Rights Defender and political prisoner Tajimuratov’s mother visited him on July 30, 2024 – August 01, 2024 in the high-security colony KIN 11 in the city of Navoi, where he is serving his 16-year prison sentence. Dauletmurat Tajimuratov lives in a barrack with 150 other prisoners, suffering from inhumane living conditions and

Freedom for Eurasia has received information that on July 23, 2024, the Committee of National Security of Kazakhstan arrested another Karakalpak, Hamdullaev Azizbek, who resides permanently in Almaty. Currently, there are no details about the arrest. However, according to Azizbek’s relatives, the arrest is related to his TikTok channel, where he posted videos about Karakalpakstan’s