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‘It Happens Every Day, to Everyone’: Street Harassment in Uzbekistan
A majority of girls in Uzbekistan have experienced some form of street harassment, from catcalls to physical assault.
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March 17, 2021
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The stories included in this text are real experiences of victims of street harassment in Uzbekistan. Their names have been changed for their safety.
For the past eight years, every time Nargiza boards public transportation she experiences an anxiety attack. She always makes sure that nobody stands behind her; she always plans an escape route. Nargiza was only 11 when a man assaulted her in a Tashkent bus. He managed to lay his hands all over her body before he was dragged out of the vehicle by other passengers.
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Open-source information explicitly linking Mirziyoev or his administration
to the compound which is sealed off from the general public by roadblocks and security personnel is sparse.
People who worked on the construction site said they had their phones confiscated upon arrival, and reporters could find no photographs in the public domain showing Mirziyoev at the property. The compound’s thin paper trail leads back to the state-owned Uzbekistan Railways which controls the protected land on which it was built and state-owned contractors.
But there is one notable feature that the compound known on paper as the “Shovvozsoy recreation area,” after the nearby river has in common with other residences used by Mirziyoev and highlights its importance to the Uzbek government: a no-fly zone.
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