"Uzbek police brutalize human rights monitor Elena Urlaeva", 2 June 2015

...Police in Uzbekistan arrested and brutalized human rights monitor Elena Urlaeva...as she was documenting systematic, government-organized forced labor in the country’s cotton fields...Ms. Urlaeva documented the Uzbek government’s forced mobilization of teachers and doctors to clear weeds from cotton fields near the city of Chinaz in Tashkent region. Kindergarten teachers told her that the mayor had ordered the schools to send them to weed the fields...Police...arrested Urlaeva, injected her with unknown sedatives, and...interrogated her for 18 hours.