🇺🇿 One year ago, on February 17, 2025, in an Uzbek prison, the author of the most popular YouTube channel in Karakalpakstan and an associate of Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov – Mustafa Tursynbayev – passed away. The official cause of death: a wall fell on him in prison. He was 41 years old.

⚡️ A new criminal case has been opened against Karakalpak political prisoner Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, who is already serving a 16-year sentence, under Article 220 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan, which carries an additional 5 to 10 years in prison. The court hearing is scheduled for Feb 18, 2026.

🇺🇿 Maria Tazhimuratova, sister of Karakalpak political prisoner Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, sentenced to 16 years in Uzbekistan, recorded a video address to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev & his daughter Saida Mirziyoyeva, who oversees Karakalpakstan: youtu.be/XtQSHdS5Faw

Transcript of the video address:

🚨🇺🇿 Uzbekistan’s authorities plan to further tighten the sentence of Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, a lawyer and journalist sentenced to 16 years in prison following the bloody 2022 protests in Karakalpakstan, by transferring him from a penal colony to a prison. ⤵️

🇺🇿 I was involved in providing assistance to Karakalpak migrants in Kazakhstan starting in 2013, including helping them submit inquiries to the Consulate General of Uzbekistan. I communicated with Uzbek diplomats on a weekly basis, I repeat, every single week, and I have extensive correspondence, ⤵️

My face at five when my mom gave me chocolate coins:

@mcfaulmike.bsky.social

For years, human rights defenders & journalists exposed child labor and forced adult labor on #Uzbekistans cotton fields. Major clothing brands rejected Uzbek cotton; authorities had to start addressing these problems.

Saida Mirziyoyeva, daughter of the president:
– This is my father’s achievement

🇺🇿 A well-known blogger in #Uzbekistan who published an interview with the president’s daughter, Saida #Mirziyoyeva, on his YouTube channel warns subscribers that posting critical comments could land them in prison for four years. 1/3 ⤵️

⚡️ Have you seen the famous candid interview given in 1947 by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, to a journalist from the newspaper Pravda? I haven’t seen it either. But today a recording found in the archives has been published: youtu.be/ASlXtubDKOU

🇩🇪 Germany has terminated an investigation into one of Putin’s so-called “wallets” – Russian billionaire of Uzbek origin Alisher Usmanov. The case concerning a possible violation of sanctions was closed without charges being filed. In return, Usmanov agreed to pay about €10M to the state & charities.

⚡️🇰🇿 Russian serviceman who deserted the army has been stuck in Astana airport’s transit zone for three days. #Kazakhstan authorities refuse him entry or asylum registration. The Human Rights Bureau has appealed to state authorities for access to the asylum procedure.

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🎬 Thoughts on film. Still waiting for a good biopic about Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize laureate (in Physics and Chemistry) at a time when women around the world still did not have the right to vote. Her daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also became a Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.