If the director
of Uzbek Service, Sojida Jafarova,
will not answer the
PROTEST : Why is the Uzbek Service of RFERL -“Ozodlik”
ignoring the ideas of promoting democracy and acting against the
A nonprofit and international
organization, The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan (CDU), which unites
hundreds of democratic activists in Uzbekistan and has thousands of supporters
in the country and many dozens of members in the US and Europe, advances
freedom in Uzbekistan by promoting democracy and unmasking a totalitarian
regime.
For a long time in our history,
even in the present time only those people who have served for the kings` palaces could become the
heroes of the nation, their crimes against their own people remained
unrevealed, and the real friends of the nation were overtaken by sad fates, and
these kind of facts are still the painful spots in our history.
Taking
into consideration all above mentioned matters, in order to create the list of
those people who violated the Constitution of Uzbekistan, the national laws,
democracy and democratic values, freedom of speech, human rights, international
laws, encouraged torture against the democrats, human rights activists, even their
own citizens, suppressed the peaceful demonstrations forcibly, and even ordered to
shoot the participants of such demonstrations, committed crimes against
humanity, misled the nation in order to conceal their own crimes, supported the
tyranny of the single person, The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan came to
a decision to create the book “The enemies of Democracy in Uzbekistan.” To
immortalize the names of those who were exiled, persecuted harshly, driven out of their Motherland
by the government and have
sacrificed their own lives for the sake of Democracy
and their people, The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan founded the book
of:“The friends of Democracy in Uzbekistan.”
Our websites, which has published such news,
are banned in
In addition, with my initiative “Kurultay”
program was created and it is broadcasting bimonthly. I have been a regular
participator of this program. Usually, I have also provided the topic for the
program. In February 8, I wrote a letter asking for an organized discussion in “Kurultay”
on “How dictators are using Prophet Muhammad caricature scandal for their
advantage?” On February 19 this issue was discussed in “Kurultay” however, I
was informed that I have been banned from the discussion by the radio authority.
What is this?
-Is this persecution for the letter I have
written to US Congress regarding the reforms in Uzbek Service radio?
-Or, is this because the readers of CDU website
have been writing their opinion regarding the radio?
-Or, is this because CDU has published an
article on some staff of radio playing games between opposition fractions and
secrete service of
-Or, is it because of my demands for an
explanation from the Sojida Jafarova for boycotting the CDU?
What happened? We don’t know. I wrote a letter
to Sojida Jafarova personally and asked what has happened? She has left my
questions unanswered.
Why is the
Uzbek Service of RFERL -“Ozodlik” ignoring the ideas of promoting democracy and
acting against the
Jahangir Mamatov.