The Amnesty International delegation including the director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Marie Strasers and her deputy Denis Krivosheev will visit Uzbekistan between May 22-25 for the first time since 2004 and meet with a number of officials, gazeta.uz reported.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice confirmed their readiness to receive the visiting delegation.
Marie Strasers noted the positive steps taken by the Uzbek authorities over the past year and a half, in particular, the unconditional prohibition of torture.
Amnesty International has prepared a list of recommendations, in particular on the termination of criminal cases and rehabilitation of all "political prisoners", as well as unbiased re-investigation of crimes against human rights committed in the past.
The last time Amnesty International officials visited Uzbekistan was in in 2004, when an international conference was held in Tashkent organized by AI jointly with the Uzbek human rights organization - Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture.
In July 2017, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov announced Uzbekistan's readiness to receive international human rights organizations. In September, a delegation of Human Rights Watch visited Tashkent.
