Rights group urges Uzbekistan to release activist from forced psychiatric detention

Rights group urges Uzbekistan to release activist from forced psychiatric detention

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for the release of imprisoned Uyghur activist Valijon Kalonov on Monday, who has been forcibly detained in a Uzbekistan psychiatric hospital since 2021. Kalonov was initially detained on charges of using social media in a way that threatens public safety, and publicly insulting the President of Uzbekistan. During his trial, state-appointed psychiatrists diagnosed him with “chronic mental illness in the form of obs…

Uzbekistan: Free Blogger from Forced Psychiatric Detention

Click to expand Image Uzbek blogger Valijon Kalonov at a psychiatric hospital in Jizzakh, Uzbekistan, where he has been forcibly detained since 2021 for criticizing the president. © Aleksey Garshin 2022 (Berlin, March 31, 2025) – The Uzbekistan government should immediately release and compensate the blogger and activist Valijon Kalonov who has been forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital since December 2021, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights…

Kazakh oil refineries can be handed over to Russia. The Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch are demanding that the Uzbek authorities release activist Validjon Kalonov from a psychiatric hospital. Bishkek residents, whose land falls under the extension of the government road, are fighting with the authorities

Uzbekistan: Free Blogger from Forced Psychiatric Detention UN Experts Call for Immediate Release from Arbitrary Detention, Compensation | Uzbek Forum for Human Rights

(Berlin, March 31, 2025) – The Uzbekistan government should immediately release and compensate the blogger and activist Valijon Kalonov who has been forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital since December 2021, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch said today. On February 28, 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued an opinion regarding the legality of Kalonov’s detention under internationa…

Uzbek President Mirziyoyev pardoned 488 people who regretted their crimes on the occasion of Ramadan.