Etiket: Uzbek
Uzbek cotton, white gold or curse of the nation?
In the autumn heat of late September, around fifteen women with bent backs collect by hand the small balls of cotton that have just hatched in a field on the…
Uzbek cotton in the eye of Valérian Mazataud
Cotton, the white gold of Uzbekistan? The fiber, grown on more than a million hectares, had been established as a monoculture under the Soviet regime, and every autumn, until recently,…
Attack in New York in 2017 | Opening of a trial of an Uzbek risking the death penalty
(New York) The trial of Uzbek Sayfullo Saipov who killed eight people in New York in 2017 on behalf of the Islamic State group opened on Monday, with the man…
Uzbek president recognizes ‘victims’ during protests
The President of Uzbekistan on Sunday recognized “victims” during anti-government demonstrations in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakistan, in the northwest of this Central Asian country where all opposition is repressed.…