14.07.2025

The voices of Uzbek government propaganda continue to mislead the international community by claiming that, since Shavkat Mirziyoyev came to power, the country has embarked on large-scale reforms and that people’s lives have

16.04.2025

The public outcry over the unlawful criminal prosecution of Lieutenant Colonel Valijon Rakhmanov, an officer in the Military Counterintelligence Department of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan (SSS), has compelled the country’s judiciary

02.04.2025

Yesterday, 01.04.2025, at approximately 10-00 CET, we published, on the YouTube channel "Erkin O'zbekiston", a video message from the mother of Lieutenant Colonel Valijon Rakhmanov, an employee of the Military Counterintelligence Department of

17.03.2025

Report of the political opposition movement "Erkin O'zbekiston" (Free Uzbekistan) at the First Session of the 1st OSCE ODIHR Supplementary Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. City of Vienna (Austria), 17 March 2025. The lack

28.02.2025

As Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s health deteriorates, the struggle for power among potential successors is intensifying, raising concerns that it could escalate into a civil war in Uzbekistan. Sensing the imminent collapse of Mirziyoyev’s regime,

13.02.2025

In Uzbekistan, the trial of Valijon Rakhmanov, a lieutenant colonel in the Military Counterintelligence Department of the State Security Service (SSS) is ongoing. The Mirziyaev administration has accused him of espionage in favor

31.01.2025

On January 9 2025, the judicial board of the Military Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, chaired by the deputy judge Akmal Fayzullayevich Jonqobilov, sentenced Valijon Rakhmanov, Lieutenant Colonel of the Military Counterintelligence

09.09.2024

At the urgent request of the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, a meeting took place on September 6 in Bukhara between him and Uzbek citizen Shavkat Mirziyaev. Following the tragic events of

08.09.2024

Octobank, formerly known as the private Ravnaq-bank, has become a central figure in a large-scale network of criminal financial operations related to illegal casinos and betting shops, as well as the withdrawal of

14.05.2024

A video recently surfaced in the Kyrgyz segment of the internet, in which an associate of Sabyr Japarov is heard saying that “the cargo (gold bars) has been delivered and is ready for