Senior Pupils from Mirzachul District Mobilized to Pick Cotton

Senior pupils from the Mirzachul district of the Jizzakh region…

Employee from Jizzakh Beaten by Police for Refusing to Pick Cotton

Farkhod Mamaev from the village of Saratepa in the Dustlik district…
Cotton pickers in the Namangan region © UGF 2016

Statements of “voluntary participation” in the cotton harvest are an additional mockery of the people

This year’s forced mobilization of people to the cotton fields…
Cotton picking is hard work: Pickers have to bend down the whole day and work outside in the heat. © UGF 2015

Woman suffered a miscarriage during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

Forced to pick cotton, 28-year-old Dilarom Juraev, living in…

Pregnant women suffered a miscarriage on the cotton fields

This piece of information was sent to us by one of the cotton…

“People come back home after having picked cotton and have no electricity”

The following message was received from one of the numerous people…
Caricature by Cartoonist Tuz (Source: www.eltuz.com)

No gas supply to Gallaorol

Nabijon Jurboev, one of the residents of the Gallaorol district…
Sign with a slogan (Cotton is mine, yours, ours) © UGF

“You dont have the right to refuse orders of the acting president!”

“You dont have the right to refuse orders of the acting president!”,…
Mobilization of students to the fields in 2015 © UGF

Students and teachers of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute mobilized for cotton picking

Students and teachers of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute…
Work on the cotton fields 2015 (Source: UGF monitors)

Teachers and doctors are sent to “aerate” cotton fields

According to an order by the Khokim (governor) of the Jizzakh…