Prison term extensions were commonly used against political prisoners in #Uzbekistan under Karimov. Now jailed Karakalpak activist Dauletmurat Tajimuratov is on trial on a charge that could see 10 years added to his 16-year term. Background @eurasianet.bsky.social eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-k...

🇺🇿 Algorithm and AI moderation systems faile to detect fake copyright violations: Activists silenced amid increasing suspension of #Facebook and #YouTube accounts 🤐. #FreedomOfSpeech, anyone? tinyurl.com/vs5mawj6

“Our goal is for #Uzbek cotton to be fully free of its legacy of coercion,” says @umidaniyazova.bsky.social tinyurl.com/hnkzfft9

Who invited these creeps to #Uzbekistan? The Tate brothers, who spread vile mysogyny online, are facing charges of rape and #HumanTrafficking in Romania and the UK. Uzbek women are already highly vulnerable to male violence - this is deeply insulting. Background via this link: tinyurl.com/dabp76yh

🕯️A light has gone out in #Uzbekistan. Prominent #humanrights defender, journalist and poet, Karim Bahriev, died aged 64. He co-authored our first report documenting #forcedlabor in the #cotton harvest in 2012: "It's not a plant, it's politics" (link in thread). 1/ tinyurl.com/4mebjad4

🇺🇿 Great listen by CAPS Unlock with @joannalillis.bsky.social & @peterleonard1.bsky.social discussing Joanna's excellent book Silk Mirage. Includes commentary on @uzbekforum.bsky.social research on #ForcedLabor & the exploitation of farmers in the #cotton sector. tinyurl.com/2s4697k7

🆘 The case of Dildora Khakimova, teacher, mother of three and social justice activist suffering from cancer, is one of the cruelest we have come across. Both she & Valijon Kalonov, currently held in a closed psychiatric clinic, should be released immediately. #Uzbekistan #HumanRights bit.ly/4dHEBbf

Local officials in #Uzbekistan are notorious for arbitrary interventions and are seldom held accountable. This time, teachers are subjected to humiliation because their pupils did not recite a poem to the satisfaction of the governor Shohrukh Boltayev in Navoi region. tinyurl.com/dcv3tvc5

Great to see the work of brave human rights defenders working on labour rights in #Uzbekistan documented in the Sage Journal 👏🏼 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @sbs.strath.ac.uk @acadpubnews.bsky.social #cotton #humanrights #supplychains #duediligence #forcedlabour journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👏🏼 The voices of farmers in #Uzbekistan are finally being heard! Online survey launched by the Business Ombudsman includes critical questions relating to transparency of officials, administrative pressure, and land leases. Caveat - seems anyone can take part.... 🤔 bit.ly/4r5wSqx

🇺🇿Labour laws must be backed by practical safeguards; #Uzbekistan’s labour reforms fail to protect farmers from abuse bit.ly/4r2vMvT

Great to see so much coverage of our report on farmers in the #Uzbek media 👏🏼 Scroll down for more: 1/ Podcast from BBC O'zbek bit.ly/3ZVjlHe

Following our report last week on exploitation of farmers in #Uzbekistan, we warmly welcome today's announcement of public events to support farmers throughout the country, along with a hotline for submitting proposals and raising complaints. 👏 bit.ly/4kRAR8F

Farmers, Courts, and Investors: Examining Recent Land Disputes in #Uzbekistan timesca.com/farmers-cour...

"Sie dachte, sie wäre unantastbar." Der tiefe Fall von Gulnara Karimova, Tochter des ehemaligen Präsidenten und einstige Prinzessin von Usbekistan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adua... Kommentare @umidaniyazova.bsky.social #Karimova #Korruption #Usbekistan

🇺🇿 When the Sardoba dam collapsed in 2020 resulting in the loss of many thousands of homes and livelihoods, the Uzbek government promised compensation. 6 years later and many are still without homes. Now peaceful protestors are being heavily fined. bit.ly/4rq6XLg

📽️ A new report @uzbekforum.bsky.social & @hrw.org documents the hardships, pressure, intimidation, and threats faced by #cotton & wheat farmers in #Uzbekistan today. These six farmers tell their stories: bit.ly/4rxuYjK

1/2 Today is World Social Justice Day. ⚖️ We dedicate it to the Uzbek farmers who are at risk of forced labour and human rights violations, under the state’s coercive production system, as documented in a new joint report by @uzbekforum.bsky.social and @hrw.org. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

@cottoncampaign.bsky.social: "Farmers in #Uzbekistan should be allowed to exercise their fundamental right to #FreedomOfAssociation, which is essential to eliminate ongoing risks of #ForcedLabor in the #cotton sector." tinyurl.com/4edr7dk6

👇 Check out this new report by @uzbekforum.bsky.social & @hrw.org, exposing how cotton & wheat farmers in #Uzbekistan face coercion, abuse, penalties (e.g. land seizure for not meeting quotas) and are at risk of #ForcedLabour, despite years of proclaimed reforms. www.uzbekforum.org/uzbekistan-c...

#Uzbekistan & #Cotton: cotton pickers are no longer forced to pick cotton, but farmers are still locked into a system that puts them at risk of exploitation and conditions of forced labor. Article by @umidaniyazova.bsky.social @thediplomat.com tinyurl.com/2c44tht2

📢 Out today! A new joint report @uzbekforum.bsky.social & @hrw.org based on 75 interviews with farmers in 6 regions of #Uzbekistan & Republic of #Karakalpakstan, expose egregious exploitation of #cotton and wheat farmers. Read the report here: bit.ly/3OgLnu9

For the first time, this report focuses solely on cotton farmers who remain at grave risk of illegal land seizures, exploitation, threats, and even violence as the government continues to impose control over an agriculture system that has long since supposed to have been reformed.

📢 Out today! A new joint report @uzbekforum.bsky.social & @hrw.org based on 75 interviews with farmers in 6 regions of #Uzbekistan & Republic of #Karakalpakstan, expose egregious exploitation of #cotton and wheat farmers. Read the report here: bit.ly/3OgLnu9

#Uzbekistan ended state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest in 2021, but authorities continue to violate the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system. More in a NEW @uzbekforum.bsky.social - @hrw.org report - www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Azattyk Asia reporting today on land seizures from farmers in #Uzbekistan - www.azattyqasia.org/a/uzbekistan... Watch this space for new @hrw.org @uzbekforum.bsky.social report on abuse, exploitation of cotton and wheat farmers in #Uzbekistan tomorrow!

A new joint report by Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and @hrw.org - watch this space! #Cotton #Farmers #Uzbekistan

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan's #cotton and wheat farmers are vulnerable to exploitation, including illegal land seizures. Read our new joint report with @hrw.org out on Tuesday, February 17! #Cotton #Uzbekistan #Agriculture #Farmers #LandRights

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Together with Freedom for Eurasia, the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik”, and the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, we demand that #Uzbekistan must initiate an investigation into allegations of torture against convict Nozimjon Abdullaev and bring those responsible to justice.

‼️ 🇺🇿 Prominent Uzbek rights lawyer's license revoked after daring to criticize the judicial system following his defence of a former State Security Agency employee who alleges he was tortured while in detention. bit.ly/3OoWqkL

🇺🇿 So what were the trends for #HumanRights in #Uzbekistan last year? Spoiler alert: not promising. Read on at @hrw.org World Report: bit.ly/4qSgIl8

❗ #HumanRights Alert: As millions in development finance continue to pour into #Uzbekistan's agriculture sector from @ebrd.bsky.social @adb.org and #WorldBank, illegal land seizures are driving farmers to despair. bit.ly/49WyGNp

Documents from "Uzbekistan Post" are used to process the shipments to Russia, even though the Uzbek postal service is not authorized to operate in Germany. All test parcels containing microelectronic components that were sent by the journalists reached Moscow without any obstacles. 📹 BILD

A stream of torture claims involving #Uzbekistan's most prominent political prisoner - #Karakalpakstan community leader Dauletmurat Tajimuratov - undermine the reform narrative promoted by the Mirziyoyev administration joannalillis.substack.com/p/is-torture...

Сможет ли Узбекистан решить проблему принудительного труда с помощью механизации? bit.ly/46mhYEO

Thank you, Ambassador Eduards Stiprais, EU Special Representative for Central Asia for being on @SLonCentralAsia to talk about EU-Central Asian relations. open.spotify.com/episode/4TbS... And thank you to our sponsors oxussociety.org & @timesca.com!!

🇺🇿 Cotton harvest 2025: mechanization won't solve the structural issues that still make Uzbekistan a risky destination for sourcing #cotton. These issues have been explained in depth for the last 3 years (🧵). Little has changed to address them. bit.ly/49MkHbC #Cotton #Uzbekistan #ForcedLabor 1/

🇺🇿 Cotton harvest 2025: mechanization won't solve the structural issues that still make Uzbekistan a risky destination for sourcing #cotton. These issues have been explained in depth for the last 3 years (🧵). Little has changed to address them. bit.ly/49MkHbC #Cotton #Uzbekistan #ForcedLabor 1/

In Andijan, #Uzbekistan, Chinese investors appear to be benefitting from forced land seizures of farmers. #China #HumanRights #Farmers #LandRights bit.ly/4r5X7O8

🇺🇿 Farmers in Khovos district (Syrdarya) are being forced to sign statements of “voluntary” land-lease terminations while government debt collectors go to their homes and seize their property: #Uzbekistan #Farmers #HumanRights 🧵 bit.ly/4jL3YKr

🇺🇿 More #torture in #Uzbekistan: former government official tortured by state security agents to force him to confess to leaking information to media outlet about former Prime Minister Aripov receiving bribes. Trial behind closed doors, 15 years in prison. bit.ly/45U7dt9

🇺🇿 More #torture in #Uzbekistan: former government official tortured by state security agents to force him to confess to leaking information to media outlet about former Prime Minister Aripov receiving bribes. Trial behind closed doors, 15 years in prison. bit.ly/45U7dt9

🇺🇿 Gulirano Kosimova has shown extraordinary bravery by holding power to account following horrific abuse at the hands of the authorities. However, her ordeal is far from over. Article @thediplomat.com photo @Kun.Uz bit.ly/450moRc

🇺🇿 #Cotton producer Indorama Agro is again at the centre of controversy following reports from local residents that its ginning facility is not using filters, releasing dust and particles into the atmosphere causing respiratory problems. bit.ly/4pxEth1 @ebrd.bsky.social @ifcorg.bsky.social @adb.org

As we clear our desks for 2025, we would like to wish everyone who sees and shares our posts here a peaceful festive season and a happy new year. Our thoughts are with the brave activists in #Uzbekistan who are separated from their families for exercising their right to #FreedomOfExpression.

🇺🇿 Torture survivor makes desperate appeal following threats and intimidation while perpetrators walk free. #Uzbekistan #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #Justice bit.ly/48MMY2H

🇺🇿 Public participation in development projects is the foundation of inclusive, sustainable investment, yet @ebrd.bsky.social is failing to collect data on stakeholder engagement, particularly in the agribusiness sector in #Uzbekistan as the #IndoramaAgro project has shown. bit.ly/4pNLPhd 🧵

Another victim of lawlessness in #Uzbekistan's agriculture sector as one woman battles against the authorities who illegally seized her land based on a falsified "voluntary" land lease termination. Kudos to Nasiba Turdieva for fighting back 💪🏼 ⚖️ bit.ly/4rJVYwR