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One of the readers messaged Ozodlik to tell about the ways of how people are being forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan: “According to Ozodlik, alimony payers in Uzbekistan are being forced to pick cotton. Uzbek bailiffs are indeed forcing alimony payers to participate in the cotton harvest by saying that the ‘prosecutor’s office’ gave […]
This year’s forced mobilization of people to the cotton fields which started two weeks ago and has been carried out in all regions of Uzbekistan, has turned out to be particularly aggressive. People working in different sectors, far from the agricultural one, do not only have to leave their families and go to the fields […]
Forced to pick cotton, 28-year-old Dilarom Juraev, living in the Makhalla Mustaqillik in the Zarbdar district of the Jizzakh region, lost her baby in the sixth month of her pregnancy. Local residents said that Makhalla activists had forced the pregnant woman to pick cotton. The involved officials however tried to blame the family of the […]
Since the beginning of the cotton harvest in Tashkent, the number of city bus routes has sharply decreased. There is pandemonium at bus stops, especially at rush hour. Buses which previously ran at intervals of between fifteen or twenty minutes are now running at intervals of up to an hour and a half. According to […]
Uzbekistan’s acting President Shavkat Mirziyoev has ordered the local Khokims (administrations) to organize a massive forced mobilization of students and public sector employees to the cotton harvest. Source: (www.eltuz.com), September 21, 2016
Elena Urlaeva went to the Buka district in the Tashkent region for distributing leaflets with information on the prohibition of forced labor during the cotton harvest. These leaflets were given to teachers and doctors who were forcibly picking cotton. On September 20, 2016, a meeting was held at the World Bank office in Tashkent. The […]
“Parents of kids studying at schools in the Asaka district in Andijan region are being extorted to pay money for the cotton harvest. The school administration is collecting from 5 000 – 10 000 Uzbek Som from pupils of all years and levels. I witnessed it myself. All parents were asked to come to the […]
A disabled student from Tashkent is being forced to pick cotton. Here is his message sent to Radio Ozodlik: “I am a first-year student at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. We (the students) were mobilized to go to the cotton harvest in the Syrdarya region on Sunday, September 10. The very next day […]
In the town of Gulistan (Syrdarya region), there are about 16 schools and 15 kindergartens. They are all under the direction of the Education Department. Employees of these organizations are ordered by the hokim (governor) of the city to gather every day at 6 o’clock in the morning next to the Syrdarya Regional Theatre and […]
This piece of information was sent to us by one of the cotton pickers who was forced to pick cotton during the first term of cotton harvest. This message describes an awful scene that has been witnessed by him in the cotton field: “I have just returned from the cotton harvest. And I will never […]