Business Interests and the Corruption of Law Enforcement in Uzbekistan

Scholar and Human Rights Activist

Nikolai Mitrokhin has been a human rights activist working in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan since 1993. In 1999, he joined the Memorial Human Rights Center as a Central Asia monitor. In 2002 he authored an alternative report on torture in Uzbekistan for the UN Committee Against Torture. Since 1991 he has been the project manager of the Panorama Research Center, and he was the co-editor of the Central Asia Bulletin from 1994 through 1999. He has published about 100 papers on issues of human rights, religious and ethnic problems in the CIS countries, including a book that he co-authored entitled Turkmenistan: State Policy and Human Rights. He is a graduate of the History and Archives Institute of the Russian State Humanities University.