Category Archives: Central Asia
We demand to protect and not to extradite a refugee!
Tursunov Khairullo Turdievich, citizen of Uzbekistan, born on April 4, 1974 in Karshi, Kashkadarya region, who was under arrest since April 7, 2012 in the city of Aktobe in Kazakhstan, will soon be extradited to Uzbekistan on the decision of the Criminal Court of Aktobe region made on January 18.
The international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” closely observed, studied, and helped to organize the defense on the case of Khairullo Tursunov, and believes that his case is entirely fabricated, full of serious violations of the Procedural Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as conflicts with the international obligations of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is to extradite yet another Uzbek refugee to Tashkent
Aktobe regional court of Kazakhstan ruled to extradite asylum seekers Khairullo Tursunov back to Uzbekistan. According to his lawyer, a special convoy from Uzbekistan is expected to come to take him to Tashkent.
On January 18, 2013, Aktobe regional court held a hearing on the case Khairullo Tursunov, asylum seekers from Uzbekistan. Our sources in the country reported that the court was to be held on January 17.
Murdered journalist Saipov’s brothers attacked in Bishkek
In the evening on Sunday, December 2, slain journalist Alisher Saipov’s three brothers were attacked by a group of men in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan.
Shohruh Saipov, journalist and one of the beaten brothers, told about it to “Jarayon”.
According to him, on Sunday at 9:30 pm, Ozodbek, his younger brother, and his friend went to the store.
Representative of Kazakhstan visited 29 Uzbek refugees in prison of Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan authorities sent a special envoy to Uzbekistan, who visited 29 imprisoned refugees extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011.
Meeting in Tashkent prison
The international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club,” based in France, closely monitors the fate of 29 Uzbek refugees, who were extradited last year from Almaty, Kazakhstan, to Tashkent.
European Union should announce its position on political killings in its territory
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Catherine Ashton, is expected to visit Uzbekistan on November 26-30 as a part of her work mission to Central Asian.
During the visit, Catherine Ashton will meet with the senior governmental officials in Uzbekistan, in particular, with the President Islam Karimov.
United Nations Human Rights Committee United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
Citizen of Uzbekistan Mr. Khairullo Tursunov is under serious threat to be extradited from the Republic of Kazakhstan back to his home country.
For more than seven months he has been detained in the city of Aktobe in Aktobe region. In addition, the General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan made a decision to satisfy a petition to extradite the Uzbek refugee Mr. Khairullo Tursunov.
Election of Kazakhstan to the UN Human Rights Council has caused a storm of criticism
Kazakhstan, a state that last year extradited 29 Uzbek refugees to the country of torture, entered the United Nations Human Rights Council.
On November 12, 2012, New York hosted a 67th session of UN General Assembly, which included elections to the UN Human Rights Council for the period of 2013-2015.
In UN complaint, Azimjon Askarov seeks justice, freedom
By Muzaffar Suleymanov/CPJ Europe and Central Asia Research Associate
Lawyers for imprisoned investigative reporter Azimjon Askarov, who is serving a life termin Kyrgyzstan on charges widely seen as politically motivated, filed an appeal today with the U.N. Human Rights Committee that seeks his release.
Askarov’s lawyer, Nurbek Toktakunov, and a team of experts from the Open Society Justice Initiative filed a 115-page complaint with the U.N. body.
Yet another Uzbek asylum seeker may be extradited from Kazakhstan
The Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan made a decision to extradite Uzbek asylum seeker Khairullo Tursunov back to Uzbekistan.
Asylum seeker Khairullo Tursunov, who has been held for seven months in pre-trial detention center of Aktobe city, is already informed about the decision of Attorney General.
PETITION: Free Jailed Journalist Azimjon Askarov
To: Almazbek Atambayev, president of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Dear President Atambayev,
At its 2012 International Press Freedom Awards on November 20, the Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four journalists, who risked their lives to reveal abuses of power in Brazil, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Liberia.
