Tleubike Yuldasheva is a Karakalpak activist who has been engaged in human rights activism since at least 2013. In 2019 in Nukus, on Freedom Square, Yuldasheva and another Karakalpak activist Perizat Begzhanova, with their children, tried to hold a peaceful protest over the lack of support for poor families, single mothers and unemployment benefits. The […]
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Karakalpak activists living abroad are facing sentences in Uzbekistan in absentia. This information was provided to Freedom for Eurasia by activist Koshkarbai Toremuratov, who is currently seeking asylum in Poland. Toremuratov Koshkarbai has been sentenced by the Nukus city court to five years and one month in prison under articles 159(1) and 244¹ (3) para
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April 9 marks the 31st anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of Karakalpakstan. This constitution was ratified on April 9, 1993, during the second session of the Parliament of Karakalpakstan. Article 1 of the Karakalpak Constitution declares Karakalpakstan as a sovereign democratic republic, within Uzbekistan. Mutual relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the
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Kazakh human rights defender Galym Ageleuov, director of the human rights organization “Liberty”, who investigated the protests in Karakalpakstan on 1-2 July with Freedom for Eurasia, has been prohibited from entering Uzbekistan in 2023. Ageleuov, as an expert of Freedom for Eurasia, visited Karakalpakstan in 2022 to meet with the families of those who were
In a concerning development, it has been revealed that the messenger accounts of the Uzbek human rights attorney Sergei Mayorov have been hacked. For years Sergey Mayorov defended high profile cases and represented bloggers, journalists, political opponents and critics of the Uzbek authorities, including the case of blogger Miraziz Bazarov, journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev and civil
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Alarming developments are happening in Kazakhstan involving the denial of asylum cases for Karakalpak activists by the migration department, continuing unfair court decisions that were taken without considering the real threats facing activists in Uzbekistan. This leaves the activists in a precarious situation, with minimal hope for their immediate future. Djaksymbetov Zhangeldi, Yuldasheva Tleubike, Mirmanbetova
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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,
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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
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Contents I. Introduction. II. History of the Karakalpaks and their Republic. 1. The Karakalpaks. 2. Their Republic. 2.1 Karakalpakstan in the Soviet era. 2.2 Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. III. Karakalpakstan today. 1. Ecological Situation. 1.1. Drying up of the Aral Sea. 1.2. Impact on Health. 2. Social-Economic Situation. 2.1. Numbers. 2.2. Neglect and Exploitation. 3. Political
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In 2022, residents of Nukus, the capital of Uzbekistan’s autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, protested a proposed change to the Uzbek constitution that would have removed their right to secede. They succeeded—but now, in retaliation, the Tashkent government is jailing local activists and stifling free speech. My first encounter with Karakalpak identity was superficial. In late
