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First-year college students in the Ferghana region are being forced to pick cotton. On September 30, first-year college students in the Ferghana region were mobilized to the cotton fields. Second and third-year college students in the Ferghana region were also sent out to pick cotton just a week before. “Only second and third-year students from […]
According to witnesses, the Khokim (local governor) of Chinaz district, Makhmud Eshonov, forced the head doctor of the polyclinic Bakhtiyor Dovurboev to resign during a meeting regarding the cotton harvest. Bakhtiyor Dovurboev was insulted by the Khokim and forced to sign a resignation letter due to “failing to fulfill the requirements of the cotton program”. […]
“The deputy director of the Central Hospital in the city of Samarkand, Rustam Abduhalikov, makes the heads of all departments pay 500,000 Uzbek Som for the renovation of the hospital building. Where will they get that money from? Of course, they will extort them from regular employees. In addition, doctors are being forced to go […]
Some people mobilized to pick cotton in the Chinaz district of Tashkent region are being forced to do so among bushes full of thorns. The following complaint illustrates the situation: “Employees of public institutions were brought to one of these cotton fields yesterday. It was full of bushes with thorns. Some refused to pick cotton […]
On September 23, 2016 the activists Malokhat Eshonkulova and Elena Urlaeva went to the Buka district in the region of Tashkent to conduct fact-finding on forced labor in the cotton harvest. Malokhat and Elena discovered that the medical staff of the city of Angren were currently employed in the cotton harvest. They were brought to […]
Since September 20, educators living in the city of Buka (Tashkent region) are sent every day at 6 am to pick cotton in the remote fields of the Buka district. The city and the regional department of public education happen to be the organizers of the forced mobilization of workers of the educational sphere. From […]
Interview with the Doctor,. 18 September 2016. I am a doctor. I work at the rural health centre in the Shakhrikhan area. We have been sent out to pick cotton since 6 September. Each year I go to gather cotton. Mostly they send nurses to do it. But when there are not enough people, they […]
I’m studying at the Andijan Agricultural Institute, the Faculty of Economics. Due to the days of mourning, classes began on September 4th. On September 8th, our curator said that starting September 10th we all will go and pick cotton. I rested a day at home, but more like gathered my things for the departure. I […]
On September 22 the head of administration of the Kyzyryk district in the Surkhandarya region of Uzbekistan made chairmen of the local mahalla (Neighborhood ) and public organizations gather for an evening meeting at the cotton gin plant. The were also forced to pick cotton until 3:30 am. The head of the district threatened the […]
Everyday at 6am employees of educational institutions gather and call the roll next to Regional Drama Theatre. The roll call is read out by their school principals or a member of the city educational authority. They are then mobilised to work in the cotton fields. According to teachers, school principals call and insult teachers who […]