Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

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,

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