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Uzbek authorities to protect against photographer

The site "Ferghana.Ru" started to collect signatures in defense Umida Akhmedova, one of the most famous photographers of Uzbekistan. For photographs of her prosecutors opened at Akhmedov case, accusing her of "insulting and slandering the Uzbek people".
Open letter in support of Akhmedova published a group of photographers, artists, art historians, critics and journalists from Uzbekistan, Russia, USA, Canada and several European countries. Subscribe in support Akhmedova possible in the comments to the treatment site "Ferghana.Ru.
"If this process is not stopped, any photograph, made at the Uzbek street can become a pretext for the prosecution," - say the authors in support of treatment Akhmedova.

Slandering the Uzbek people Uzbek prosecutor's office found the album "Women and men: from dawn to dusk, Akhmedova released in 2007 with the support of the Swiss Embassy. The album contains 110 photos everyday topics.
The rating of freedom of speech by "Reporters without Borders" in 2009 Uzbekistan is at 160 th place out of 175. Post-Soviet republics worse performance only in Turkmenistan - the 173rd place.
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With photographers, artists, art historians, critics and journalists from Uzbekistan, Russia, Europe, America and Canada distributed an open letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as international organizations for human rights and international community in general .

The letter expresses support for work of the famous photographer Tashkent Umida Akhmedova, to institute criminal proceedings in respect of which we are told.
Here is the text of the letter in full. If you want to subscribe to this treatment, write a comment.http://www.ferghana.ru/article.php?id=6411
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
International organizations for the protection of human rights

Open letter

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17 December 2009 a number of news agencies reported on the criminal case against one of the most famous photographers of Central Asia - Umida Akhmedova. According to information distributed, Umida Akhmedova accused of "insulting and slandering the Uzbek people". The reason for the accusation served as the album "Women and men: from dawn to dusk, which was published in 2007 with the support of the Swiss Embassy.
I would like to recall that freedom of expression the artist is one of the key criteria for the rule of law. The right and opportunity to judge a work of art, to evaluate it or to criticize belongs to the experts and the audience, and not a punitive system. From a legal point of view, art can not be regarded as a "document" and therefore can not be an agent of "slander".

Photos Umida Akhmedova have obvious artistic value and enjoy international recognition. Many international experts believe that they are the Central Asian cultural heritage. The State should be proud of creativity of talented photo-artist, but he did not threaten criminal prosecution.
Images created Umid Akhmedova, are neither fancy, nor even a caricature. They reliably fix those aspects of life, faced daily by every inhabitant of Uzbekistan, every passer-by on the street, guests at the wedding ritual, or other family celebration. To accuse this clearly identifiable in the fixation of "libel" and "insult" can only he who becomes acquainted with the life of the people of Uzbekistan on the summaries of the official TV and emasculated images of the official art.

Process, prepared Umida Akhmedova, represents an important turning point in the minds of power. From imposing their ideological cliches society it goes to legal pressure. The facts of life that do not meet the official ideology, now silenced, and their reproduction in art - subject to the procurator. If this process is not stopped, any photograph, made at the Uzbek street can become a pretext for the prosecution.
Subscribing under this treatment, we demand that the Uzbek authorities to respect the laws of the republic and to respect the artist's right to freedom of creativity. Umida Akhmedova not photographing sensitive sites, is not anticipated by the state symbols and, of course, not "slandered" the Uzbek people. Discussion of works of art should go on the pages of newspapers and magazines, but not in the courtroom.
We also appeal to the international community, heads of diplomatic missions and human rights organizations. Uzbekistan Themis commit dangerous turn, the consequences of which can be unpredictable. We must do everything possible to avoid the worst!

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1.Umida Akhmedov and Oleg Karpov.
2 10.Albom "Women and men: from dawn to dusk"

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Levon Avakian, designer, Montreal, Canada
Defne Ice, director of «Arthub Asia», New York, Shanghai
Alisher Akayev, a student, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Julia Amanbaeva, student AUCA (American University in Central Asia), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Margarita Amvrosova, art, gallery "Tengri-Umai", Almaty, Kazakhstan
Shaarbek Amankul, artist, director of the Bishkek-Art Center, a member of the Artists' Union of Kyrgyzstan, a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Kyrgyzstan
Viktor Antonov, photographer, member of the creative association of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Natalia Andrianova, designer, member of the board of the magazine «Design.KG», curator of design projects, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ruben Arevshatyan, artist, critic, professor of art history of the Armenian Open University, a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), a member of the journal redsoveta www.red-thread.org, a member of the supervisory board of Center for Contemporary Art DEPO (Istanbul), Yerevan, Armenia
Simon Harel, full member of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor of the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Said Atabekov, artist, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Meder Akhmetov, architect, artist, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Alexander Batin, artist, Uzbekistan
Catherine Bogachevsky, photographer, St. Petersburg, Russia
Olena Boyko, chief editor of the magazine about contemporary art Umelec, Prague, Czech Republic
Gamal Bokonbaev, cultural studies, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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Already signed:
Levon Avakian, designer, Montreal, Canada
Defne Ice, director of «Arthub Asia», New York, Shanghai
Alisher Akayev, a student, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Julia Amanbaeva, student AUCA (American University in Central Asia), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Margarita Amvrosova, art, gallery "Tengri-Umai", Almaty, Kazakhstan
Shaarbek Amankul, artist, director of the Bishkek-Art Center, a member of the Artists' Union of Kyrgyzstan, a member of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Kyrgyzstan
Viktor Antonov, photographer, member of the creative association of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Natalia Andrianova, designer, member of the board of the magazine «Design.KG», curator of design projects, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Ruben Arevshatyan, artist, critic, professor of art history of the Armenian Open University, a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), a member of the redsoveta magazine www.red-thread.org, member of the supervisory board of Center for Contemporary Art DEPO (Istanbul ), Yerevan, Armenia
Simon Harel, full member of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor of the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Said Atabekov, artist, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Meder Akhmetov, architect, artist, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Alexander Batin, artist, Uzbekistan
Catherine Bogachevsky, photographer, St. Petersburg, Russia
Olena Boyko, chief editor of the magazine about contemporary art Umelec, Prague, Czech Republic
Gamal Bokonbaev, cultural studies, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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Where there is power saw "insulting and slandering the Uzbek people"?

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky (Сообщение 848262)

Where there is power saw "insulting and slandering the Uzbek people»?

A "Pig mud everywhere will find" (this is about the authorities) ... Mentality dense and manipulative to the bone ...

Akhmetov great artist! Beautiful, warm picture!
Imagine. what a shock for her!
From signature "unknown" is interpreted to be?

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Сообщение от NATA NOVA (Сообщение 902242)

And let's write an open letter to the president's daughter - Gulnara Karimova, who is in Moscow's view of Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Russia, the head of the Fund "Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan", as both a doctorate in political science and director of the Center for Political Studies in Tashkent, as well as designer, singer, and even a poet. So let's see how her love for art is clear.

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Сообщение от fross (Сообщение 902402)

And let's write an open letter to the president's daughter - Gulnara Karimova, who is in Moscow's view of Minister Counselor of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Russia, the head of the Fund "Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan", as both a doctorate in political science and director of the Center in Tashkent Political Studies, as well as a designer, singer, and even a poet. So let's see how her love for art is pure.

Not bad idea! Let's Frosik, write, think, many subscribe.

I went, signed the petition - I do not know whether the proc, but its duty, as they say, complied.

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Сообщение от LCR (Сообщение 902432)

Not bad idea! Let's Frosik, write, think, many subscribe.

I went, signed the petition - I do not know whether the proc, but its duty, as they say, fulfilled.

I, alas, do not possess the gift of writing. Just if you write on the site, so it is the opposition, and it is unlikely to help the artist, rather the contrary.
We must write our impression of the beautiful works, without any foolish policy.

Well, but where? I do not know your media. Yes, and write an open letter can not. Loaf, Madame Frosya (which you notable), make a plan of action. Personally, I volyus :)

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Сообщение от LCR (Сообщение 902472)

Well, but where? I do not know your media. Yes, and write an open letter can not. Loaf, Madame Frosya (which you notable), make a plan of action. Personally, I volyus :)

Here here can send http://gulnarakarimova.com/en/, only the text to properly compile.

Karimov's regime is a Stalinist regime in the 21 century ... While Umida supposedly free, but it's all relative, it must as soon as possible to leave the country, following the court-it will have a real 5-7 years, Karimov's terrible camps in Karakalpakstan desert (in a camp for dissidents). Wishing success Umida Akhmedova .. (EA)
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Umida Akhmedova found guilty on two counts, but amnestied .10 February in Tashkent sentenced in the case of the Uzbek photographer and documentary filmmaker Umida Akhmedova, which has been accused of slandering and insulting the Uzbek people. The court found her guilty on both the alleged her articles, but to the photographer will be applied the amnesty, which was announced in August to the 18 th anniversary of independence. Sign on parole otmenena.Povodom for trial became album "Men and Women: From dawn to dusk, reflecting different aspects of life in Uzbekistan, as well as the documentary" The burden of virginity, "created Umid Akhmedova together with Oleg Karpov. Photos included in this album are available in the Gallery "Fergany.Ru", the film "The burden of virginity" - here. And the movie and the book were created on the grants of the Swiss Embassy.

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1.Umida Akhmedov.
2 4.Tekst sentence.