The powerful work tells the stories of indigenous Tatar dissidents and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula
New play gives a voice to the forgotten Crimean Tatars
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CATEGORY: Uzbekistan
Media in exile: Eurasia’s last vestiges of freedom of expression
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyyet, one of Turkey’s most popular newspapers, was awaiting an appeal on his case in Turkey from Germany when the news of the coup d’etat in his homeland came. Scores of...
Journalism in Exile: Uzbekistan continues its bar on Hamid Ismailov
Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed “unacceptable democratic tendencies”.
Index urges Russian government to halt deportation of Uzbek journalist
Journalist Khudoberdi Nurmatov, who works for independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, is set to be deported back to Uzbekistan, where it is feared he will be tortured.
Worst countries for restrictions on religious freedom
Some of the worst countries for religious freedom are Burma, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Eritrea, Iran
Uzbekistan: Dissident photographer “ruining the constitution”
Renowned photographer and documentary filmmaker Umida Akhmedova tells Milana Knezevic about her latest run-in with Uzbekistan’s repressive authorities