Report on deportation and forced return of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrant workers from Russia to Uzbekistan (rendition to torture; abductions and forcible returns; deportation from Russia for administrative offences; torture, forced confessions and family persecution in Uzbekistan).

This briefing provides updates on key concerns highlighted in Amnesty International’s 2013 report, Return to torture: Extradition, forcible returns and removals to Central Asia, as well as new information and cases of abductions in Russia and practices of returning individuals to torture in Uzbekistan. It also provides updated information about torture practices, unfair criminal trials and other on-going human rights violations in Uzbekistan itself.