"Until the very end"
Subtitle: politically motivated imprisonment in Uzbekistan
By: Steve Swerdlow
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781623131951
Subjects: Political prisoners
Other titles: Politically motivated imprisonment in Uzbekistan
Description: "This 121-page report presents disturbing new findings about the treatment of 34 of Uzbekistan's most prominent people imprisoned on politically motivated charges. They include two of the world's longest imprisoned journalists and others who have languished behind bars for more than two decades. Based on more than 150 in-depth interviews, including with 10 recently released prisoners, and analysis of newly obtained court documents, the report extensively documents the plight of many wrongfully imprisoned activists."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "September 2014"--Table of contents page.

"This report was researched and written by Steve Swerdlow, researcher in the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, and representative of Human Rights Watch's Tashkent office until the Uzbek government forced its closure in spring 2011."--Page 120.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Map of prisons in Uzbekistan; title: Summary; title: Key recommendations; title: Methodology; title: I. Politically motivated imprisonment in context: 25 years of repression; title: II. Profiles of individuals imprisoned on politically motivated charges; title: III. Prison abuses and the arbitrary extension of sentences; title: IV. International responses to Uzbekistan's policy of politically motivated imprisonment; title: Recommendations; title: Acknowledgements.