Since its founding in 2002, the group became one of the most prolific chroniclers of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous state and an important Western ally in the Afghanistan war.
He studied radio technology, and worked in a printing house, a photographic studio, and taught in a college, and later headed a company producing educational materials.
Ikramov regularly attended trials, talked to victims and compiled dispatches which he emailed to diplomats, journalists and government officials.
In a country with no independent media, his dispatches provided a rare window into the workings of Uzbekistan's repressive legal and political system.
In a May 2010 dispatch marking the five-year anniversary of a government crackdown on protesters in Andijan, Ikramov called it "one of the most horrible crimes of the Karimov regime" that remains "uninvestigated and unpunished."