Employees of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan have completed the investigation of the criminal case against their former leader. Former chairman of the NSC Karim Masimov and his former deputy, head of the Special Purpose Service “A” Anuar Sadykulov are accused of high treason, attempted to seize power by force, and abuse of power. […]
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 […]
The norms prescribed in the new law on the state civil service will affect corruption of the middle and lower levels. Such a conclusion follows from the list of persons who are not covered by the scope of the introduced legal norms. “This circumstance immediately discredits the generally correct intention in regulating the relations of […]
The national holding Zerde, which was supposed to be reformed, was decided to be liquidated. On August 5, the Government of Kazakhstan adopted a corresponding resolution. National holding “Zerde” was established in July 2008 in order to promote the development of the info-communication technologies market and the implementation of breakthrough projects, the formation of a […]
On July 29, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Foundation, the first president of Kazakhstan, filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Maryland against the American Journalism Development Network (JDN), headquartered in Baltimore. According to the lawsuit, the Nazarbayev Foundation did not like the JDN publication, which revealed that the first president of Kazakhstan owns a multibillion-dollar […]
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