News Agency HARAKAT - 26 August 2010

• 04:00Chevrolet Spark mini automobile presentation held in Tashkent

  As informed in the earlier Uzbek language news, the presentation of the Chevrolet Spark automobile, the product of the U.S.-Uzbekistan joint company “GM-Uzbekistan,” was supposed to take place in August 25. The information about the presentation, which was held today in the Tashkent "Uzexpocenter," was distributed not through official news agencies but by almost an unknown website, gazeta.uz. The site journalists wrote of this automobile as 5 door, but it can be seen in the picture that it h...

• 01:30Islam Karim’s conguratulation to Rosa Otunbaeva is the spit to the face of Uzbeks

  Today the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karim sent a telegram with congratulations to the head of the provisional government of Kyrgystan Rosa Otunbaeva. On the telegram were described warm wishes, and special spot of Rosa Otunbaeva in the Uzbek-Kyrgyz relationship. As it became known, Dmitriy Medvedev also sent a telegram with congratulations to a woman who ruled the massacre against Uzbeks in southern Kyrgystan. There is a difference between Dmitriy Medvedev's congratulations who sent a ...

• 04:17Disturbance in Osh: Kyrgyz people defend the city Mayor and beat up human rights activist defending Uzbeks. Uzbeks in trouble!

  As independent Kyrgyz news agencies report, today at the department building of Osh city where after rumours that Melis Mirzakmatov was dismissed from his post of the mayor, citizens gathered for the meeting to defend him. First, it was informed that about 200-300 people participated in the meeting , then in the news it went up to 3000 people. It is known that Melis Mirzakmatov is one of the heads of the Uzbeks massacre in Osh. But , it also became known, that unnunited and helpless Uzbeks ...

• 04:52"Birlik" Party’s leader talked by the phone with associates and discussed the future plans

  Yesterday and today, the "Birlik" Party chairman Abdurahim Polat talked through the telephone to the Party’s vice-chairmen Pulat Okhun, Hamdam Sulaymon and also Party General Secretary Mrs Vasila Inoyat, about realization of the accepted decrees on Central Council's Board expanded meeting held on May 1 in Tashkent and also about future plans. It is known, that the main subject of that meeting's Agenda was to accelerate the activities directed to get the official registration of " Birlik" Part...

• 03:48Tashkent province is alienated from citizens of the country

  After February 1999 terrorist attacks in Tashkent, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karim issued the special decree, which put under restraint obtaining the right (that is, registration) to live in Tashkent City. The only way to get registration in capital city was through the decision of specially organized commission. Special commission would not see everyone as worthy to live in the capital city. As a result, most of the employees registered in the Tashkent province but continued living in the ...

• 16:31Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain met with the "Birlik" Party's vice-chairman

  Representative on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan matters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain Mr. John Hetenstal and a head of the political matters department of the British Council in Uzbekistan Mr. Richard Pick visited the city of Kokand and met with a vice-chairman of the "Birlik" Party - Hamdam Sulaymon. The conversation touched government barriers in respect to democratic activities in Uzbekistan, violation of human rights, and situation with opposition, particularly, the si...

• 14:05One of the leaders of the "Birlik" Party Daynov Tashanov recovered after heart attack

  On July 11th of this year we informed about the "Birlik" Party vice-president Daynov Tashanov who got heart attack and was brought in to Kashkadarya regional Emergency Center. Daynov Tashanov, who twice came through myocardial heart attack later, was moved to Tashkent Republican Emergency center. With experienced surgeon's help he got installed conductors into his heart (steno). After the danger was over, "Birlik" activist Daynov Tashanov was discharged yesterday as he was feeling healthy. ...

• 13:47The sentence for the girl who saved her honor and imprisoned for 15 years remains unchanged

  In the July 13 and July 27 news, we informed the readers about Shohista Mahsumova who was forced to confess a murdering incident under fear of being raped by Kashkadarya region Internal Affairs Department’s investigator-officers was sentenced for 15 years imprisonment, and that the court hearing is in appeal process. Today the decision of Kashkadarya region Criminal Cases Appeal Court was announced to keep the sentence unchanged. The Appeal Court took on account the special investigation grou...

• 15:22The Religion Studies Department of Oriental University shut down

  The Religion Studies Department of Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies has been shut down. Applicants were not accepted this year to this Department and the decree of this Department to be shut down was released recently, confirmed one of the students of the department to our reporter. There is no doubt that shutting down the department is the derivative of the new state policy to limit religious freedom. Now, the religion studies specialists will come out of the Tashkent Islam Univ...

• 16:16Helsinki Commission held a hearing on Kyrgyzstan

  On July 27, 2010 the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) held a hearing - "Instability in Kyrgyzstan: the International Response" The following figures testified: The Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, U.S., State Department Mr. Arslan Anarbaev, Charge d’affaires, Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic Dr. Martha Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Dr. Bakyt Beshimov, ...