21.09.2022
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Sardor Abdukhalilov: If you get down to a high-profile case, dirty methods can be used against you

About why victims of torture in Kyrgyzstan are paid meager compensation and how to solve the problem of violence against women, we talked with the lawyer of the Public Foundation “The Center for Strategic Litigation” Sardor Abdukhalilov. – How effectively does Kyrgyzstan as a state implement the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee? – […]

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Kyrgyzstan: who threatens journalist Shokhrukh Saipov and why

Journalist Shokhrukh Saipov, who spoke about problems with taxi drivers at the Osh airport and at the Dostuk border checkpoint, is again threatened. In an interview with ACCA, he spoke about who is trying to intimidate him and how law enforcement agencies react to this — What kind of threats do you receive, in what […]

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Lawyer: the case of Temirov Live’s journalists is a reason to change the drug policy in the Kyrgyz Republic

Lawyer and member of the Coalition against Torture in Kyrgyzstan Arsen Ambaryan analyzed the incident with journalists of the Kyrgyz YouTube channel Temirov Live especially for ACCA in terms of the shortcomings of the anti-drug legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic and chances In 2021, Ambaryan conducted an analysis of some sentences of the courts of […]

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Zarina Akhmatova: we will not tolerate a demonstrative flogging

The International Fund for the Defense of Freedom of Expression “Adil Soz” appealed to the Minister of Information and Public Consent of Kazakhstan, Aida Balaeva, with a request to use all the powers given to her to immediately restore the work of the blocked HOLA News website. Recall, as ACCA has already reported, the Internet […]

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Serikzhan Mauletbai: I’m not surprised that they followed me

The news that in Kazakhstan, the authorities were monitoring journalists, activists and politicians with the help of Pegasus program, had the effect of a bomb. Especially after not only journalists and human rights activists, but also the country’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin, Mayor of Almaty Bakytzhan Sagintayev (who previously held the post of Prime Minister) […]

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Expert: there are no political prisoners in Kazakhstan, but they are

In the coming days, a meeting of the Expert council of human rights defenders will be held in Kazakhstan. It will once again revise and supplement the list of political prisoners of the country, which currently includes about twenty people. ACCA was informed about this by one of the members of the Expert council – […]

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Kazakhstan: police major is accused of rape

The case of abuse of office by representatives of law enforcement agencies occurred in Pavlodar region. A 22-year-old girl, detained by the police officers, was raped. The victim told about this to the well-known Kazakhstani human rights activist Elena Semenova during a meeting in the pre-trial detention center of Pavlodar. As Semenova said in an […]

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Uzbekistan: Bazarov’s case showed lack of freedom of speech

The lawyer of the blogger Miraziz Bazarov, Sergei Mayorov, told the details of the criminal cases against his client in the interview. The name of Miraziz Bazarov has recently been quoted not only on social networks and in the media. Interest in this blogger is growing due to the fact that Bazarov openly spoke about […]

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Expert: people are deprived of civil and political rights in Kazakhstan

The Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights (KIBHR) has prepared an analytical note on the application in Kazakhstan of additional punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities, in particular social, trade union or religious activities. According to the director of the KIBHR, human rights […]

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