Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, called on the Tajik authorities to stop the practice of illegal detentions and unfair trials of residents of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, where peaceful rallies were suppressed in May this year. HRW’s August 23 statement on the situation in GBAO stated: “The Tajik authorities must put an […]
In the near future, the Supreme Court of Tajikistan will recognize the “Commission 44” created by civil activists in GBAO as a “criminal community,” ACCA sources said. The authorities do not give any comments on this matter. “Commission 44” was created on November 28 last year immediately after the participants of the spontaneous rallies in […]
A protest was held in the capital of Kazakhstan near the building of the EU embassy. Relatives of those detained and tortured, as well as relatives of those who died during the January riots, called on European politicians to demand that the Kazakh authorities conduct an independent international investigation into the January events. The reason […]
In Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, police officers are raiding private houses and apartments with the participation of representatives of citizens’ gatherings (mahallas) in connection with the upcoming celebration of the Independence Day of Uzbekistan. Residents of the capital are warned about the danger of holding rallies on September 1. In conversations with residents, law […]
Yrys Zhekshenaliev, the admin of the Polit Uznik Facebook community, was detained in Bishkek. The 19-year-old blogger is charged with the article “Mass riots” of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. On August 14, President Sadyr Japarov instructed law enforcement agencies to “bring to order false patriots and liars” in connection with the dissemination […]
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 Tajik authorities continue repression against national and religious minorities living in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. Residents of the region say that civil activists in Khorog and Rushan continue to be called in for so-called “conversations” and interrogations, forcing them to write receipts that they will no longer take any action against the current government. […]
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan published on its website a list of citizens who died during the January riots. The list consists of 238 surnames. As noted in the supervisory authority, the list includes both innocent citizens and criminals. “We are looking into every detail. To date, the circumstances of the death have been […]
The management of the medical and labor dispensary puts up the patients of the institution for sale as a labor force every day. All funds from the sale are taken by the management and the patients work for food. According to ACCA sources, there are currently about 350 people in Lebap velayat’s Therapeutic-labor dispensary (TLD […]
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