22.09.2022
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Turkmenistan: Prison authorities add prisoners to list of pardons for bribes

According to ACCA sources, exactions from prisoners have been going on for two weeks in the colonies of Lebap region. Colonial officers demand money for entering the name of the prisoner in the list of those pardoned. The amounts are exorbitant and not every prisoner can afford it. The minimum rate is from 50,000 manats […]

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Tajikistan: 80-year-old convicted IRPT’s activist was again placed in the prison’s penal block

One of the founders of the Islamic Renaissance Party (banned in Tajikistan), 80-year-old Zubaydullo Rozik, who has been serving a 25-year sentence since 2016, was again placed in a punishment cell. The administration of the prison in Vakhdat punished him for violating the regime of detention in the colony and sent him to a punishment […]

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Kyrgyzstan: Detainees in Cholpon-Ata are forced to sleep on the floor

The hotline of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture received information about the beating in the temporary detention center under the Department of Internal Affairs of Issyk-Kul region. A preventive group of employees of the National Center for Issyk-Kul region, an involved expert, as well as the Ombudsman’s representative for this region immediately […]

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Uzbekistan: Women in prisons are forced to terminate their pregnancies

Human rights organizations have prepared a report on the situation of children and mothers in prison for publication at the 91st session of the UN Committee on the rights of child. Representatives of the initiative groups “Open Line” and “House of Human Rights” from Uzbekistan, the Association “Human Rights in Central Asia” (AHRCA, France) with […]

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Kazakhstan: an official of the penitentiary system was detained for taking a bribe

Employees of the Anti-Corruption Agency detained Berik Aigeldin, the head of the Severo-Kazakhstan regional branch of the Enbek state enterprise, red-handed while receiving a bribe. According to the press service of the Agency, Aigeldin received a bribe from an individual entrepreneur for the unimpeded signing of acts of acceptance and transfer of food products for […]

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Tajikistan: special services hide another escape from the pre-trial detention center

Another state of emergency has occurred in the prison system of Tajikistan: an accused of robbery escaped from the Dushanbe pre-trial detention center. The escape was made on August 19, but it became known only on August 29, when one of the employees of the pre-trial detention center was detained. Back in 2007, a robbery […]

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Kyrgyzstan: A man dies in pre-trial detention center-1 in Bishkek for unknown reasons

The man’s brother who died told ACCA that relatives suspect the death was unnatural. A year and a half ago, I. was released from colony-settlement No. 26. He was released ahead of schedule, so he had to go to colony settlement No. 26 every week and check in. He did just that. “Later I found […]

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Kazakhstan: authorities forced to testify against Zhanbolat Mamai

An inter-ministerial group investigating the January events in Kazakhstan intimidates arrested rioters into testifying against opposition politician Zhanbolat Mamai, leader of the unregistered Democratic Party, who is now also under arrest on suspicion of organizing “mass riots” and “disseminating knowingly false information” during the January riots. This information was disseminated by the Arash Committee, which […]

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Kyrgyzstan: detainees in detention center report being tortured by law enforcement officers

A man who is in the Osh institution No. 25 spoke about torture by employees of the Leilek District Department of Internal Affairs of the Batken region. The district attorney’s office will handle the case. Lawyers of the Osh office of “Bir Duino (United World) Kyrgyzstan” deal with complaints received during the monitoring of closed […]

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