A cotton picker is at work during this year's harvest in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan in this October 2015 photo courtesy of Anti-Slavery International released to Reuters on December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Simon Buxton/Anti-Slavery International/Handout
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The news reached Dmitry Tihonov in Uzbekistan's rural heartland as the labour activist quietly recorded the arrival of thousands of teachers, nurses, labourers, students and other conscripts sent to the fields to pick cotton.
A fire had destroyed Tihonov’s home office. When he returned to search the debris on Oct. 29, his reports for international monitors documenting the annual mobilization had vanished.
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