Human Rights Violations

Amnesty International
("The right to effective remedy (Article 2.3)", par. 5)

On 31 August 1999 Mikhail Ardzinov was again physically assaulted and verbally threatened in the street outside his home by officers of the National Security Service who had been watching his movements.

Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
(page 4, "Freedom of _Expression and the Media", par. 7)

In February 2002, Dzhumaev's son was brutally attacked by three unknown perpetrators who allegedly reminded him that "they had warned him once before"...

Free Madia
("2002 World Press Freedom Review", par. 11)

On 30 January, Ruslan Sharipov, a correspondent for the Russian news agency Prima and president of the Union of Independent Journalists of Uzbekistan (UIJU) was attacked in Tashkent by two security forces officers. RSF reported that the officers dragged Sharipov to their car, beat him and eventually released him, apologizing for having detained him without a legal warrant. Sharipov was attacked again on 5 February by three men, one of whom tried to strangle him. The next day, he was attacked again by two men who hit him on the head and in the stomach and seized his passport and journalist card.

Reporters Without Borders (Page 1, par. 1)

Reporters Without Borders voiced its outrage at the beatings inflicted today on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty stringer Khusnudtin Kutbetdinov and Voice of America stringer Yussuf Rassulov in Tashkent by some 15 thugs.