Uzbekistan’s Senate has approved a law that criminalizes begging in public places across the country.
Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has called for the modernization of the country's wine industry and brought 60,000 vine cuttings from France. But can the Muslim state transform an ancient tradition into a modern industry which can compete on international markets?
Pakistan has criticized a U.S. decision to place Pakistan on its blacklist of countries that violate religious freedom, calling the move "unilateral and politically motivated."
Police in one district of corruption-plagued Uzbekistan have been forced to swear on the Koran that they will be good cops.
On this week's Majlis podcast: China’s campaign against Uyghur nationalism, branded by Beijing as separatism, has abruptly spiked in the last two years and spread beyond just the Uyghurs.
Relatives of Kadyrjan Batyrov, a fugitive leader of the ethnic Uzbek community in Kyrgyzstan, say Batyrov has died in Ukraine after eight years of self-imposed exile.
On November 22-23, Uzbekistan hosted the Asian Forum on Human Rights in the city of Samarkand.
Uzbekistan’s Defense Ministry has announced the launch of large-scale military maneuvers across the country.
The “overall human rights situation” in Uzbekistan has improved over the last two years, says Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, whose country currently holds the rotating European Union presidency.
An unregistered Uzbek opposition group says it has been prevented from holding a two-day congress in southern Kazakhstan, where it had planned to establish itself as a political party to challenge the leadership in its home country.
Turkey has vowed to continue "to support the cause" of the Meskhetian Turks, voicing solidarity on the 74th anniversary of their deportation from Georgia to Central Asia under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Five Kazakh men have been imprisoned over a bus fire that killed 52 Uzbek citizens in Kazakhstan in January.
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