Human Rights

Freedom for Eurasia had access to Karakalpakstan’s regional court decisions from 2022, 2023, and 2024 concerning articles of the Code of Administrative Responsibility of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The investigations focused on the following articles: Article 201  , “Violation of the procedure for organizing, holding meetings, rallies, street marches or demonstrations”; Article 201¹, “A public […]

Introduction: Smoke grenades and rubber bullets fired by security forces, deadly attacks by police officers. Videos on the Internet still show the brutality of the unrest that shook Uzbekistan at the beginning of July, 2022. Several thousand people took to the streets in Nukus, the capital of the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan,

December 10, 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the date of adoption of which is celebrated around the world as Human Rights Day. On the eve of this date, we bring to your attention a preliminary list of political prisoners in Karakalpakstan. It includes the names of civil society

Modern Karakalpakstan is a quasi-state political entity, an administrative-territorial unit within Uzbekistan. Having adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Karakalpakstan on December 14, 1990, the political elite of Karakalpakstan signed an interstate agreement with the Uzbek political leadership on January 9, 1993, according to which Karakalpakstan became part of Uzbekistan with the status of an

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan must stop the detentions of critics, civil activists and members of the committee to protect the Kempirabad reservoir, cease the searches of homes and seizures of property, and immediately release everyone arrested in connection to the criticism of the authorities, including the members of that committee who were taken into custody during

We, — non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders and civil activists, expressing our deep concern in connection with disturbing events in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, call on the UN Human Rights Council, governments of democratic countries and international organizations to address promptly the issue of the human rights situation in the Republic of Karakalpakstan. On 26