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Thousands of workers and employees of the General Motors (GM) plant in the Uzbek city of Asaka in the Andijan region, have been sent to collect cotton since September 14. According to a factory worker who reported this, workers are collecting cotton in the fields in the Jizzakh and Tashkent regions. An unidentified spokesman at […]
Since the beginning of October, more than 30,000 residents of the Ferghana, Namangan and Surkhandarya regions have been sent by train to collect cotton in the western and northern regions of Uzbekistan. Cotton squads, consisting of unemployed residents, as well as employees of state organizations, went to work in the fields of the Khorezm and […]
On October 18, at a meeting of the administration of the Shahrisabz district of the Kashkadarya region dedicated to the cotton campaign, a group of farmers was criticized for selling cucumbers at the local market instead of participating in the national plan to collect cotton. After the meeting, several farmers were sent to the district […]
A 60-year old resident of the village of Sharkobod in the Sokh district of the Ferghana region, Davron Davronbekov, who was sent to pick cotton in the Rishtan district, disappeared on October 11 during harvesting. Five days later, his body was found in a ditch near a cotton field. According to witnesses, the farmer fell into a […]
Teachers of the Andijan State Medical Institute have written a letter to Radio Ozodlik, stating that the rector of this university is forcing them to hire mardikors (workers) to harvest cotton. Teachers who refuse to pay to hire mardikors are threatened with dismissal. The leadership of the medical institute refused to comment on this information. […]
On September 28 at 8 am, the khokim of the city of Angren decided to send large numbers of employees of state organisations, including doctors and school teachers, to collect cotton. At 6.30 am, the human rights activist Yelena Urlayeva, arrived at the gathering point for the cotton pickers, located in the square in front […]
For how long must we be victims of lies? What are the duties of a school director? Is it managing the school or sending people to fields to pick cotton? Is the state policy being tested on teachers? Are there any training courses which would teach directors public speaking skills, politics and raise their awareness […]
On October 8, thousands of employees of state organizations from the Andijan region, along with traders from the local wholesale market were deployed to collect cotton, causing it to close. The mass mobilization of townspeople to cotton fields is due to good weather and the opening of cotton containers, allowing large amounts of raw cotton […]
The BBC has learnt that the order to recall teachers and medical staff from the cotton fields is not being implemented everywhere. “In order not to miss lessons twelve of us agreed to hire people to pick cotton in our place and pay them 5,000 soms a day. Today, we received an order that all […]
A 57-year-old khokim of the Ulugnor district of the Andijan region of Uzbekistan, Asilbek Yusupov, died on October 6. According to several independent sources of the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF) in the Andijan region, the hokim suffered verbal abuse during a meeting on the collection of cotton. Immediately afterwards he was taken to […]