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The following message was received from one of the numerous people that have been forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan. This person is a resident of the Ravalliq Makhalla (district) in the city of Jizzakh, in the Jizzakh region. According to him, there is a shortage of electricity in the whole district. Electricity supply is […]
Exactly half of the 47 employees of the veterinary hospital in the city of Namangan were forcibly sent to pick cotton and to stay at the workplace overnight. Earlier, the khokim (head of administration) of the city of Namangan, Bahodir Bekhodjaev, had claimed that veterinarians would not be sent to pick cotton, since they faced […]
Mothers receiving child benefits from the state are also forced to work during the cotton harvest. The Makhalla (district) administration threatens to cut off payments of state social benefits if the women do not participate in the cotton harvest. “My sister-in-law has two kids. One of them has just started his first year at school, […]
With the beginning of the seasonal cotton harvest in Uzbekistan, employees of public institutions are being extorted to pay a fee of 150 US dollars to be dismissed from the cotton picking. The Metropolitan Children Hospital No. 1 in Samarkand follows the same path. Managers and directors of the hospital demand up to 150 US […]
In the Kattakurgan District of the Samarkand region, a kindergarten teacher was fired for refusing to pick cotton. On September 18, in a conversation with a correspondent of Radio Ozodlik, the kindergarten teacher told the following: “It was decided by lot that I had to go (to harvest cotton) in the first shift. My husband […]
Nabijon Jurboev, one of the residents of the Gallaorol district in the Jizzakh region and a prominent follower of Radio Ozodlik, was interviewed by an Ozodlik reporter after the visit of Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Jizzakh region. According to Nabijon Juroboev, the visit of the acting president has not brought much change to the region […]
“You dont have the right to refuse orders of the acting president!”, said Laziz Fayziqulov, a member of the Jizzakh district Cotton Headquarters, to an entrepreneur who had refused to harvest cotton. Radio Ozodlik received an audio file in which Laziz Fayziqulov was threatening a shop owner to suspend his shop unless he went to […]
Since September 15, workers at the Polyclinic № 28 in the Yashnabad district of Tashkent, have been forced to pick cotton. Those who cannot or do not want to pick cotton are being forced to buy themselves free. The amount of money extorted from doctors varies depending on their wage, and is calculated according to […]
Students of the Graphic Arts Department at the Ferghana State University were also mobilized to harvest cotton. They refused to give interviews on tape though. In a personal conversation, they spoke about their mobilization to cotton fields in the Qushtepa district, and about the uncertainty concerning the length of their stay. “My parents both have […]
Medical workers from Chinoz and Yangiyo’l districts of the Tashkent region were forcibly mobilized to pick cotton. On September 18, 2016 the human rights defenders Elena Urlaeva and Malokhat Eshonkulova left the Tashkent region in order to monitor the issue of forced labor in cotton fields among doctors. As it turned out, in the village […]