Uzbekistan Targets 'Undesirable' Foreigners and Stateless Persons

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 26, 2023. © 2023 Jasmine Leung/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo On November 15, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a new law targeting “undesirable” foreign citizens and stateless people whose speech or actions are found by Uzbekistan officials to “discredit” the people of Uzbekistan.The law stipulates that if foreigners or stateless people make “public calls or actions contradicting the state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also provoke interstate, social,…

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