Association for Human Rights in Central Asia

The Central Asian region, because of its geographical distance from a democratic Europe, the peculiarities of the development in recent years, the authoritarian structure of power and the corruption of the elites, has become a source of violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

It became obvious that the consolidated assistance of political emigrants in the dissemination of information on human rights violations in Uzbekistan, on media activities, on the functioning of civil society institutions, as well as for supporting those who suffered from the dictatorial regime was extremely needed.

The organization began to send collective appeals to European agencies, the UN, the US State Department with a request to help the victims of the Andijan tragedy and exert political pressure on official Tashkent.

Representatives of the Association regularly report relevant information to the international community on the situation of political prisoners, civil activists and human rights defenders [23] in the region [24] [25].

[19][20] The next wave of activists fleeing the region began when political emigrants came to a rally on the occasion of the arrival of Islam Karimov in Brussels.

sparked a new wave of pressure on activists who supported the joint appeal "Free Europe opens its arms to bloody dictators?"

After the release of the "Open Letter to the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman on the forthcoming visit of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov", made by thirteen human rights organizations exerted external pressure to cancel Karimov's visit to Prague and received public support.

On September 3, 2016, Euronews broadcast an interview with the president of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Nadejda Atayeva, who regretted that Islam Karimov managed to escape punishment for crimes that were committed under his leadership in Uzbekistan.

Arrests of human rights activists, supporting the European Union's demand for an international investigation into the Andijan events with the participation of independent experts and journalists began.

For several months, the EU was negotiating with the Uzbek authorities about an international investigation into the Andijan events with the participation of independent experts.

[22] - There will be no change of the regime in Uzbekistan after the death of their president, and whoever is next to lead the country will follow the same path, according to Nadejda Atayeva, who is based in Paris and is also the head of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia[23] - Телеканал "Дождь" Экстренный выпуск.