On June 2, Kazakh human rights activist Vadim Kuramshin, convicted to 12 years of imprisonment, declared an unlimited hunger strike demanding that the prison administration should stop putting pressure on…
Last month, the Kyrgyz State National Security Service detained about 10 people in the city of Osh, who are suspected of departure for Syria to implement jihad and involvement in…
In Kyrgyzstan, two special services officers were arrested and taken to a detention center as suspected of complicity in the murder of journalist Gennady Pavlyuk. This was reported on April…
Family members of Ulugbek Ostonov, extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011, including 29 Muslim refugees, have expressed concerns about his life. A few days ago relatives of Ulugbek Ostonov…
By Muzaffar Suleymanov/SPJ Europe and Central Asia Research Associate. Today, the U.N. Human Rights Committee begins its two-day review of Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political…
According to relatives of prisoner Umed Teshev, who stabbed the prison head with scissors in the city prison of Kulob, the southern part of Tajikistan, he was tortured by jailers…
Several independent newspapers are on trial these days in Kazakhstan, including “Pravdivaya Gazeta” (True newspaper), which existed only a few months. In her interview with Jarayon, Rozlana Taukina, a public…
“Jarayon” received information that an Uzbek refugee Shuhrat Musin, who went missing Bishkek, capital city of Kyrgyzstan in February 2013, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a court…
The flow of refugees to Russia increased significantly in recent years. Refugees are mainly coming from Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and the countries of Central Asia. In an interview with “Jarayon”,…
UN Reviews Should Urge Concrete Improvements (Geneva, April 22, 2013) – Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan’s highly repressive policies are coming up for rare international scrutiny on April 22 and 24, 2013,…
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