The Pervomaiskiy District Court dismissed a claim of 1 million KGS for human rights violations. It was this amount that the convict estimated his own suffering in the temporary detention center, where he spent 9 months instead of the prescribed 48 hours. For a long time, a resident of Uzgen region, 28-year-old Adilet Asanov, was […]
“Lawyer Nurbek Toktakunov was arrested on March 25. The authorities did it as if they were detaining a dangerous criminal. Everyone who knows him closely can no doubt tell about his courage, adherence to principles and law-abidingness,” said the activists of the human rights movement “Justice”. “By his detention, the state bodies revealed their own […]
The UN Committee against Torture made concluding observations on the Third Periodic Report of Kyrgyzstan. The document outlines some positive developments in the field of human rights, in particular, the ratification of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities by the Kyrgyz Republic in 2019. At the same time, a significant part of […]
Employees of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture visited the psychonarcological department of the Center for General Medical Practice in Kyzyl-Kiya. During the inspection, human rights activists revealed numerous violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules and regulations, fire safety rules and established requirements for living conditions and sanitary safety. “There is no running […]
Employees of the Ombudsman’s office of the Kyrgyz Republic in Talas region and a representative of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture of Kyrgyzstan monitored the temporary detention center of the Department of Internal Affairs in Talas. At the time of the visit, there were 19 people in this detention facility, including one […]
Human rights activist Indira Sautova told ACCA that she has been unsuccessfully fighting for the release of her client, who suffers from type II diabetes, for several months. Last week, the lawyer applied to the Special Prosecutor’s Office with a request to conduct a prosecutor’s check on the observance of the rights and freedoms of […]
The Ministry of Justice has launched a pilot project to provide legal assistance to imprisoned women in colony No. 2 as part of the humanization of penitentiary legislation. Thus, on February 10, a group of lawyers from the Center for the Coordination of State-Guaranteed Legal Services visited women’s colony No. 2 in the village of […]
On February 8, the State Committee for National Security detained a senior detective of the colony No. 47 of the Penitentiary Service while receiving a bribe. He is suspected of a crime under Article 343 of Part 1 “Extortion of a bribe” of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. It was established that the […]
Mary Lawlor (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders) urged the authorities of Kyrgyzstan to stop prosecuting human rights activist Kamil Ruziev and investigate the offenses that he had uncovered. She noted that the authorities of Kyrgyzstan must ensure a fair trial for Ruziev and effectively investigate all allegations of threats and cruel […]
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