On May 29, a 21-year-old man, who allegedly threw himself from the 4th floor of the Chilanzar district DIA building, died. On June 4, it became known that operatives of Buka district DIA tortured and killed a 36-year-old man. While the authorities blame the young man who died in the Chilanzar district DIA, it was admitted that operatives were involved in the tragedy in Buka district.
These two incidents have caused great discussions in the Uzbek-speaking segment of the social network in recent days, and are widely covered by the mass media. However, two large organizations that consider themselves to be “defenders” of human rights in Uzbekistan are not saying anything against the background of such tragedies.
The first of these is the Human Rights representative of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan – the Ombudsman. Feruza Eshmatova has been working in this position since 2021. In fact, the mission of the organization, whose essence and philosophy is to ensure human rights and prevent torture, is defined in the law.
That is, the Ombudsman, even if no one complains to him “when there is information about the violation of human rights, freedoms and legal interests ... has the right to conduct fact-checking on his own initiative”.
In addition, the Ombudsman has the right to enter places where journalists are not “friends” and officials without queue, to check facts. It is surprising that Feruza Eshmatova did not react to such tragedies, which caused a great resonance in society. It is just a tragedy that the Ombudsman did not hear about these two tragedies.
Another organization that is almost unknown in society is the National Center for Human Rights. At the same time, Akmal Saidov, the first deputy speaker of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis, is the
