While the Kremlin is forcing overseas-funded NGOs to register as “foreign agents” in an attempt to undermine entirely legitimate, transparent and locally-driven civil society programs, Eurasia’s post-Communist states have proven adept at using GONGOs and similar fronts to exert influence …

Newly emerging popular movements for reform were the driving force behind the Middle East’s major gains in democratic rights last year, according to Freedom in the World 2013, Freedom House’s annual report. But other regions experienced setbacks due to …

Tashkent security forces interrogate detainees and abduct asylum-seekers in Russia with impunity, say rights activists.

Officers from Uzbekistan’s secret service are being allowed to interrogate and mistreat people held in Russian prisons, according to the Moscow-based human rights group …

Gulnara Karimova is a woman who “over the years has been many things,” the BBC’s Natalia Antelava writes in The New Yorker:

Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to Spain and permanent representative to the United Nations, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a Harvard …

An exhibition of paintings depicting the brutality of Uzbekistan’s prison system goes on tour this autumn, in what artist Sergei Ignatyev says is an attempt to use art in support of human rights.

Ignatyev, originally from Uzbekistan and now living …

The senior U.S. diplomat for Central Asia was reportedly “quizzed about political prisoners in Uzbekistan” during a recent visit to Tashkent.

Obama administration officials are negotiating an agreement with Islam Karimov (left), Uzbekistan’s authoritarian president, to permit thousands of military …

A court in Uzbekistan’s capital of Tashkent has acquitted a leading human rights activist charged with defamation, ruling that the authorities’ criminal charges were unfounded in a decision that astounded rights groups.

Shuhrat Rustamov (left), a member of …