Past Events
Four Years After Andijan: Remembering the Prisoners of Conscience in Uzbekistan
| Location: | OSI-Brussels |
| Event Date: | May 13, 2009 |
On the fourth anniversary of the massacre of civilians by Uzbek government forces in Andijan, the Open Society Institute–Brussels organized an informal briefing with Vitaly Ponomarev, head of the Central Asia Program at Memorial Human Rights Centre. Ponomarev is one of Russia's leading experts on Central Asia, and the author of numerous articles on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan and the wider region.
Ponomarev was in Brussels in advance of the EU-Uzbekistan human rights dialogue, to present officials with an authoritative and comprehensive list of prisoners of conscience in Uzbek jails.
A short report of this event is available for download below.
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