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program was secretly using Uzbekistan as a destination country to fly people to be tortured. Second, the transcripts of the torture sessions were then shared...

The Republic of Uzbekistan is a semi-presidential constitutional republic, whereby the President of Uzbekistan is head of state. Executive power is exercised...

of March and July 2004. After visiting Uzbekistan in 2002 the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture found torture and ill-treatment of prisoners to be systematic...

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan...

recently laid out in a decree by President Mirziyoyev in January 2018. Secrets and Lies: Forced Confessions Under Torture in Uzbekistan, Amnesty International...

On 13 May 2005, protests erupted in Andijan, Uzbekistan. At one point, troops from the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB) fired into a crowd of protesters...

Avazov.) In 2003, Britain's Ambassador for Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, said that information was being extracted under extreme torture from dissidents in that...

International quotes a businessman who was arrested and tortured in 2011, as saying that corruption in Uzbekistan is a “cancer that had spread everywhere.” Bribery...

prosecution in Uzbekistan. Same-sex sexual activity between men is illegal in Uzbekistan. The punishment is up to three years in prison. Uzbekistan is one...

care services, and other public organizations both in and out of the country. Torture is illegal in the United States. The United States came under scrutiny...

original on 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2010-07-23. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Execution by boiling. Human Rights Watch: Torture Worldwide: Uzbekistan...

under torture are not admissible evidence in court proceedings in many jurisdictions. Article 15 of the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture specify...

Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (commonly known as the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT))...

2016) was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was...

production in Uzbekistan is important to the national economy of the country. It is Uzbekistan's main cash crop, accounting for 17% of its exports in 2006....

suspects to countries such as Egypt, Syria, Algeria and Uzbekistan, where they may have been tortured. "The United States is holding at least 26 persons as...

intelligence under torture and that intelligence received by the Secret Intelligence Service (and the US Central Intelligence Agency) from the Uzbek government...

Uzbekistan's president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, in September 2019. "Physicians for Human Rights - Uzbekistan's 'House of Torture' Is No 'Home Sweet Home'". physiciansforhumanrights...

was one of the most outspoken journalists in Central Asia ... He wrote extensively about torture in Uzbek President Islam Karimov's prisons, about the...

Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan from 1991 to his death in 2016. She wielded considerable influence in Uzbekistan owing to her business dealings...