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Islam Karimov
Despite extensive constitutional protections, the Karimov government has actively suppressed the activities rights of political movements, continues to ban unsanctioned public meetings and demonstrations, and continues to suppress opposition figures. The repression reduces constructive opposition even when institutional changes have been made. In the mid-1990s, legislation established significant rights for independent trade unions, separate from the government, and enhanced individual rights; but enforcement is uneven, and the role of the state security services remains central.
Uzbekistan used to be an ally of the United States until the country ordered all U.S. military off its soil last year after the White House criticized Karimov's human rights record. Just last spring, the Uzbek milatry mowed down several hundred unarmed protestors with machine guns in the city of Andajan — a Tianamen Square-style massacre that has received little international attention. Since then Karimov's government has launched a massive crackdown against dissenters, staging show trials showcasing confessions that appear to have been forced, just to remind people who's in charge.
"We will never let such weapon as mass media to go out of our hands as it was done by Gorbachev"
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Human Rights Watch
April 1, 2018
The scene outside a Tashkent courtroom where two journalists are on trial is at once festive and tragic. Uzbekistan's embattled human rights defenders, long harassed by the late Islam Karimov's repressive government, gathered in numbers not seen for years alongside local reporters, international ...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
Uzbekistan is a country that has long been in the shadows, but this week the once repressive and secretive Central Asian state invited the media in for an international summit on the peace process in Afghanistan. It was a chance for BBC Uzbek's Ibrat Safo to return home for the first time in more than 10 ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 30, 2018
They were all arrested in 2017, a year after Mirziyoev took over the country following the death of his authoritarian predecessor, Islam Karimov. Abdullaev's lawyer, Sergei Mayorov, said earlier that his client was tortured into making self-incriminating statements. The charges against Abdullaev and his ...
The Calvert Journal
March 13, 2018
The only reason such a print run was possible was because the country had just been plunged into a state of political uncertainty by the death of strongman leader Islam Karimov. “I was really afraid for the people who published the book,” says Ismailov, describing them as “brave or reckless”. It was not ...
EurasiaNet
March 9, 2018
In contrast with what happened under the late President Islam Karimov, who died in September 2016, the government is indulging an increasing spectrum of independent views. The Kara Sevda episode suggests it is religious and conservative-minded commentators that are most actively seizing the ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 9, 2018
Mirziyoev, who came to power following the death of his predecessor, Islam Karimov, in 2016, has said forging better relations with Uzbekistan's Central Asian neighbors is a priority for his government. During the autocratic Karimov's 27-year rule in Central Asia's most populous nation, its relations with ...
The Diplomat
March 9, 2018
Mirziyoyev has been described as “the same kind of ruler as Islam Karimov, maybe even tougher”. Once in power, Mirziyoyev modeled his leadership style as that of a reformer, and introduced limited reforms in the political, socioeconomic and foreign policy spheres. For example, in September 2017, the ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 8, 2018
The articles touched on issues related to circles close to the late former President Islam Karimov, who ruled the Central Asian country with an iron fist for more than a quarter century before his death in 2016. The trial is seen as a test of President Shavkat Mirziyoev, who has promised reforms, and of his ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 8, 2018
This was no small feat, as the late Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, had done much before his death in 2016 to sour ties with Uzbekistan's neighbors since all five Central Asian countries became independent in late 1991. Mirziyoev visited Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan during 2017, but not ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 6, 2018
The younger daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov says she is leaving her post as president of Uzbekistan's Gymnastics Federation, weeks after she resigned from the post of ambassador to UNESCO. “I am leaving the post of the president of Uzbekistan's Gymnastics Federation after 13 years of ...
The Diplomat
February 28, 2018
The Uzbekistan-Tajikistan relationship was in particularly poor condition by the time Mirziyoyev took over in Tashkent, having deteriorated steadily throughout Islam Karimov's 25-year tenure as leader. While Karimov traveled to Dushanbe in 2008 and 2014 — both times for Shanghai Cooperation ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 23, 2018
Such a development was inconceivable before the death in 2016 of President Islam Karimov, the autocrat who had kept Uzbekistan under a tight rein since 1989 and was highly suspicious of devout Muslims. But a year and a half after Karimov's death, the banning of Endless Love shows that President ...
EurasiaNet
December 31, 1999
Matters took a turn for the better following the death in 2016 of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who was actively hostile to bordering nations. His successor, Mirziyoyev, has by contrast actively pursued a good neighbor policy. In a symbolic gesture of how relations have begun to blossom anew, on the first ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
Mirziyoyev took over the predominantly Muslim Uzbekistan after the death in 2016 of authoritarian President Islam Karimov, who had run the country since the Soviet era. Tashkent's ties with the West were strained under Karimov who was often criticized over his government's human rights abuses.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Mr. Ruzimuradov was incarcerated during the rule of President Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who tolerated no dissent and silenced the news media during his nearly three decades in power. Mr. Karimov died in 2016 at age 78. Under his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who had been Mr. Karimov's ...
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