After the publication of ACCA about the mass death of people in the city of Balkanabad and satellite filming of the city cemetery, the authorities of Turkmenistan began to demand from citizens to bury their relatives in a way that the graves could not be seen from the satellite. Let us recall, on July 24, […]
In early June, the Osh Regional Court sentenced four officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Kyzyl-Kiya on the case of the severe beating of three teenagers to obtain confessions. The Coalition against Torture in Kyrgyzstan informs about it. All four were found guilty. The head of the Department of Internal […]
7 bloggers and journalists were targeted by the special services for their online activity. On July 26, in Nukus, journalists from the Karakalpak online publications Makan.uz, Kruz.uz, and Kar24.uz were taken to the prosecutor’s office in the middle of the night. The reason was the reprint of the fake news publication Repost.uz about the death […]
On the fact of beating 18 prisoners in the Suzak temporary detention facility, a criminal case was initiated against the staff of the facility, case officers, and the district police officer. Regional representative of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture in Jalal-Abad Oblast Alisher Ermatov told ACCA about this. According to the regional […]
Sulaimon Sultonzoda, Director of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of Tajikistan, said at a press conference that in the first half of the year, the Agency’s employees had identified 1,218 corruption crimes, 482 of which are classified as serious ones. Answering journalists’ questions, the head of the Agency noted that not […]
On the portal of open regulatory legal acts in Kazakhstan, a public discussion of the Concept of the draft law “On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Civil Service and Anti-Corruption Issues” was completed. This concept, judging by the reaction, people considered too soft in order to defeat […]
Alexander Chekashkin, who is serving a sentence in UK-161 12, a prison for especially dangerous criminals, located in the city of Arkalyk in the Kostanay region, ripped open his stomach to protect the lady’s honor. This was reported by the well-known Kazakhstani human rights activist Elena Semenova. “Convict Alexander Chekashkin called and said that he […]
Nine persons are accused of partial destruction of the dam of the Sardob reservoir on May 1. The Prosecutor General’s Office calls them “officials of the organizations” without specifying the place of work of each of the detainees. According to the results of the pre-investigation check, the main version of the tragedy is errors in […]
The European Union called on the Kyrgyz authorities to conduct an objective investigation into the death of well-known human rights defender Azimzhan Askarov. An official statement in regards to the death in correctional colony No. 47 of Azimzhan Askarov, sentenced to life imprisonment, was released by the European External Action Service. It says that the […]
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