The Anti-Corruption Agency has developed a new package of measures to combat bribery. Among them are the creation of a public register of corrupt officials, the introduction of criminal liability for promising/offering a bribe, an increase in the statute of limitations for corrupt administrative offenses, and the introduction of liability for bribing foreign officials. On […]
The Public Foundation “Media Policy Institute” (MPI) published the results of monitoring the situation with freedom of speech in Kyrgyzstan from October 2020 to March 2022. The document states that the reporting period covers significant events affecting freedom of speech and expression of opinion in the country, the situation in the media environment of the […]
In Kazakhstan, former police chief of Pavlodar region Nurlan Masimov has been put on the wanted list. And the police of Almaty detained a deputy of the local representative body, Kairat Kudaibergen. Nurlan Masimov is the cousin of the former chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov. As ACCA has already reported, […]
The public association “Human Rights Movement: Bir Duino-Kyrgyzstan” (One World – Kyrgyzstan) announced that it had filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee to protect the rights of the Kyrgyz woman who was accused of possessing extremist materials. It’s noted that the complaint was filed 4.5 years after the incident that occurred on […]
The Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan has developed a new Plan for further action in the field of human rights and the rule of law. The draft Plan has been posted for public comment on the open regulations portal. As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the new Plan was developed in accordance […]
The international human rights organization Amnesty International on March 29 published a new report on the situation of human rights in the world “Amnesty International 2021/22: the human rights situation in the world”. The authors of the report sharply criticized the governments of many countries, including Tajikistan, due to the lack of response to the […]
The UN Committee against Torture made concluding observations on the Third Periodic Report of Kyrgyzstan. The document outlines some positive developments in the field of human rights, in particular, the ratification of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities by the Kyrgyz Republic in 2019. At the same time, a significant part of […]
Human rights activist Ayman Umarova appealed to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, with a request to exclude employees of the National Security Committee from the interdepartmental investigative-operational group investigating the events of bloody January in Kazakhstan. She also asked that the cases pending in the NSC be withdrawn and transferred to another body, since […]
The publication of an article in the Kuwaiti newspaper “Q8-Press” concerning the Development Strategy for 2022-2026 of the so-called New Uzbekistan caused a negative assessment in the activist community. The author of the publication is Akmal Saidov, First Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis [Senate]. He also holds the post of Director […]
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