Sergey Yurievich Ignatyev (born 14 June 1958)[citation needed] is an Uzbek artist and human rights defender, living in the United States.
[citation needed] While teaching in 1985, Ignatyev initiated an exhibition in Karl Marx Street or Tashkent Broadway, together with Sergey Vasilyev, Igor Reznikov, and Vladimir Zherebtsov.
As a result, the artists earned enough money to refurbish their own studio located in the former boiler room of a residential apartment bloc premise.
The chairman of Rassom, Kutlug Bashirov, provides the official reason for his dismissal, stating that Ignatyev had: "...unauthorized use of production resources towards personal goals".
[citation needed] Basharov's reaction was rather blunt and caused a wave of protest among the young artists.
They openly resented the fact that it was not possible for young artists to display paintings without censorship; their work was evaluated with prejudice and any creativity caused a backlash.
[citation needed] At present, within the framework of the art-project, a series of mobile art exhibitions dedicated to human rights is being prepared.
The exhibition is designed as an action to draw the attention of the democratic community to the fact there are some 10 thousand political prisoners in Uzbekistan.
In the archive of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, there are about 20 letters where prisoners described torture, which they are subjected to inhuman conditions in custody.
This situation is reported to the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture on a regular basis, but he has been denied for entry to Uzbekistan for the past 8 years.
[citation needed] In 2008, Sergey Ignatyev joined the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia.