Uzbekistan: Torture Widespread, Routine

Expand Screenshot from a video showing a photo of a prisoner working at Uzbekistan's Jaslyk prison. © 2019 VOA (Berlin) – Uzbekistan should carry out the United Nations Committee Against Torture’s recommendations to end the “widespread, routine torture and ill-treatment” in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The committee’s review of Uzbekistan under the Convention against Torture highlighted that the steps Tashkent has taken to curb the use of torture have been insufficient. Urgent further measures should include full implementation of a ban on the use of torture-tainted evidence…

Read complete article

~	Healthy teeth are wondrous and priceless – a dentist explains why and how best to protect them

~	Boeing’s Starliner is about to launch − if successful, the test represents an important milestone for commercial spaceflight

~	Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200: Revolutionary work of art has spawned two centuries of joy, goodwill and propaganda

~	How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea

~	Columbia University protests look increasingly like those in 1968 as police storm campuses nationwide

~	South Africans are abandoning smallholder farming – history and policy can help explain why

~	The challenges African election bodies face go beyond ‘democratic backsliding’ – analysis

~	Marijeta Mojasevic's journey from stroke survivor to disability rights activist

~	Grattan on Friday: O'Neil and Giles dodge the spotlight shining on blunders over ex-detainees

~	US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed