As we mentioned earlier, the court of appeal is holding a trial of 15 former political prisoners in Tashkent. Fifteen out of the 23 men (Shabab), who were previously imprisoned for 20 years for their ideologies and beliefs, were sentenced in July this year to prison terms ranging from 7 to 14 years, most of them were sentenced to a special regime detention center.

The Mirziyoyev regime has brought shame upon itself before the entire world by re-imprisoning former political detainees who had survived the oppression of the Karimov era, sentencing them once again to long prison terms....

On 26/5/2024, at the invitation of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to Uzbekistan. This is Putin's third foreign visit after his election...

It is deeply regrettable that the Uzbek government, which boasts of "New Uzbekistan," and Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who came to power in 2016 and described the dark period of Karimov's regime as the "old garbage system," seems to want to return to that disgraceful period.