A wanted notice for Uzbek citizen Dilshod Akhmedov, who previously headed the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, has been published on the Interpol website. The notice states that he is accused under Article 167, Part 3 of Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code — “Larceny by Embezzlement.” Interpol issues notice for Dilshod Akhmedov According to the published data, the person …
The Pastdargom District Court of the Samarkand region has sanctioned the arrest of blogger Sirojiddin Adilov. He is suspected of committing crimes under Articles 168 (fraud) and 211 (giving a bribe) through Article 28 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan. The Samarkand Regional Department of Internal Affairs had earlier reported the opening of a criminal …
Tamara Chikunova, a well-known Uzbek human rights activist who campaigned against the death penalty and torture, died in Italy on March 31. I first met her in 2000, on the day she was told that her son had been executed. In April 1999, Tamara Chikunova’s 29-year-old son Dmitry was “invited” to a police station in …
I met Nikolay Kucherskiy (Nikolai Kuchersky), a Hero of Uzbekistan and former director of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine (NMMC), several times in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, NMMC was one of the country’s most closed-off enterprises, as it produced gold and uranium. Once, I was even flown to Navoi …
