Kazakhstan, and their only hope is that UNHCR recognizes them as refugees and resettled to third countries. More they fear the Uzbek security services, which are more or less openly, operate in Kazakhstan, and some of the respondents facing extradition or forcible return to Uzbekistan. Their precarious legal situation is complicated by the extremely difficult financial situation.the massive influx of asylum seekers from Uzbekistan in Central Asia has experienced the tragic events in Andijan in May 2005 and the subsequent repression. During the crackdowns May 13, 2005 in this city in the Fergana Valley, hundreds of people were killed and wounded. While authorities acknowledge 187 deaths in the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued in June 2006, states that « it is not excluded - judging by the stories of eyewitnesses interviewed - that the incident escalated into mass murder. » Hundreds of people were arrested and tortured after the demonstration. About 500 asylum seekers have sought refuge in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, where he subsequently received assistance from UNHCR. Not only was there no independent inquiry into the Andijan events, but suffered repression Uzbek human rights activists and independent journalists who tried to shed light on the events: a few people have been sentenced to long prison terms, and some were forced to leave the country . massacre in Andijan led to the European Union imposed sanctions on Uzbekistan (including a travel ban for some top officials of Uzbekistan). Since then, the Uzbek authorities have tried to restore the image on the international scene, taking a number of measures (including the abolition of the death penalty and the ratification of a number of other human rights instruments in 2008). EU sanctions (except for an embargo on arms sales) were dropped in late 2008 after the liberation of six human rights defenders, despite the ongoing persecution and other human rights defenders sentencing.reforms in the legislation and the ratification of international instruments are not able to have a positive impact on the situation of human rights in country. Participants of the workshop on freedom of the media, organized by the EU in Tashkent in October 2008, came to the conclusion that in this area there has been no positive changes. Although some measures have been taken to combat child labour, children in 2008 were still forced to pick cotton. Continuing arbitrary arrests of human rights activists on trumped up charges, are reported concerning the deterioration of the health of human rights defenders held under held in extremely harsh conditions. FIDH also collected information on the enforcement of human rights defenders and journalists indoors in psychiatric hospitals. October 2009 imprisoned in Uzbek prisons were eight employees Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, member organization FIDH, all on trumped up charges. Since their detention status of the health of these people has deteriorated significantly, and they do not receive adequate medical care.February 2009, the Russian human rights organization «Memorial» has published a list of 1,452 people arrested and convicted in Uzbekistan on religious or political grounds from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 20008. According to the Memorial, 94% of Muslims was arrested in the campaign against «Islamic extremism.» At least 359 people have been charged in connection with the party Hizb ut-Tahrir, - of involvement in th...
