On September 13, unknown people detained Karakalpak activists. This was reported by the Information center “Shirak”, based outside of Uzbekistan. Several men in civilian clothes are said to have taken Zhankeldi Zhaksymbetov, leader of the Azatlyk Party of Karakalpakstan, out of a rented apartment in Almaty. “We don’t know the location of Zhankeldi Zhaksymbetov. Activists […]
The former security officer, who criticized the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security, was sent to jail for a period of 7 years. Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov worked in the National Security agencies for 25 years. Prior to that, he worked in the youth newspaper “Komsomol Tochikiston” [“Member of the Komsomol of Tajikistan]. After his […]
Komyor Mirzoev, a blogger and civil activist from Gorno-Badakhshan, was detained in Moscow and illegally transported from Russia to Dushanbe. Earlier, one of the sources in the law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan, on anonymous terms, said that Mirzoev actively posted false information about the events in GBAO under an assumed name, and also called on […]
On September 6, another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan, Komyor Mirzoev, was detained in Moscow. According to the Internet portal Pamir Daily News, Mirzoev was active in his blog and wrote on social networks under the nickname Komchek Mirzoev. According to eyewitnesses, police officers entered the apartment in Moscow where the blogger lived with his friends and […]
In Aktobe, the judge of the specialized inter-district court for administrative cases, Esdauir Muratkan, by his decision found the correspondent of the information portal Nur.kz Ardak Yerubayeva guilty of disobeying the police. The collision between the journalist and the police took place on August 31. Ardak Yerubayeva tried to photograph the government motorcade of the […]
For five hours on August 30, the country’s authorities held the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) program coordinator in Europe and Central Asia, Gulnoza Said, at the airport. An employee of the organization was initially denied entry and ordered to remain in the transit zone until the departure of the flight to New York, scheduled […]
On September 7, the Saryagash District Court will begin considering another lawsuit against the well-known opposition journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov on libel charges and damage to the honor and dignity of business reputation. An application to the court against the journalist was filed by the longtime heroine of his publications, who had already met with him […]
Another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan was detained in Moscow. Maksud Gayosov, a civil activist and blogger from Badakhshan, who flew to Russia after the authorities began detaining civil activists in the Pamirs, has been living in a rented apartment in Moscow for six months now. On August 17, the police came to him and took him […]
The authorities have completed the investigation against the journalist and blogger Abdullo Gurbati, and all the materials of the criminal case against him have been submitted to the court. The court of the Shokhmansur district of the capital confirmed that on August 17 they received the materials of the criminal case against Gurbati, but refrained […]
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