several individuals and activists who had planned to travel from different regions of Uzbekistan to Tashkent to deliver petitions to the High Commissioner
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2023-113-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2023
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 41.377491
Longitude: 64.585262
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Uzbekistan
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- OHCHR: OHCHR - General
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of prior UN action
- March 2023
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Gender unclear
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
- It was also reported that several individuals and activists who had planned to travel from different regions of Uzbekistan to Tashkent to deliver petitions to the High Commissioner were arrested for several days or called to police stations prior to their travel and interrogated about the purpose of their trip. Relatives of some of these individuals received threatening calls warning them against their plans to travel. It is reported that these movement restrictions prevented their travel and engagement with the High Commissioner.
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
engaged, or sought to engage with the United Nations to raise human rights concerns
- Engagement with UN body
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of engagement
- March 2023
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- March 2023
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Uzbekistan
- Reprisal information
- It was also reported that several individuals and activists who had planned to travel from different regions of Uzbekistan to Tashkent to deliver petitions to the High Commissioner were arrested for several days or called to police stations prior to their travel and interrogated about the purpose of their trip. Relatives of some of these individuals received threatening calls warning them against their plans to travel. It is reported that these movement restrictions prevented their travel and engagement with the High Commissioner.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Charge/Investigation/Prosecution: Charge/Investigation/Prosecution - General
- Detention/Imprisonment: Detention/Imprisonment - General
- Detention/Imprisonment: Release within a day
- Family/friends/acquaintances targeted
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
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