21.09.2022
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Kazakhstan: judge suspected of bribery will be terminated

Kazakhstani fighters against corruption accused another judge of bribery, but could not prove that he was a bribe-taker. Despite this, the judge still faces dismissal. The story that will be discussed began in March of this year with the post of Kazakhstani political scientist Erbol Edilov in Telegram. On March 18, he said, citing his […]

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Kazakhstan: employees of mental ward who beat children get off with a probation

In Pavlodar, a trial in a high-profile case of torture of disabled children by employees of the Regional Children’s Psychoneurological Center for the provision of special social services has ended. All 16 accused of child abuse were sentenced to 3.5 years of restriction of freedom! The country learned about the hard-living of disabled children in […]

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Kyrgyzstan: police officers accused of torture escaped punishment

The investigator of the Department of the State Committee for National Security in the Jalal-Abad region issued a resolution to discontinue the criminal case on torture against three operative officers of the Nooken District Internal Affairs Bodies. This was reported by the human rights organization Spravedlivost. Human rights activists are outraged by this decision. After […]

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Uzbekistan: former head of Fergana region becomes deputy prime minister

After the death of Deputy Prime Minister for the Development of Agrarian and Food Spheres Uktam Barnoev, the industry will be supervised by the former khokim of the Fergana region, Shukhrat Ganiev. Now this appointment, in particular, is due to the need for tough management in a difficult period, when the coming cold snap and […]

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Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov dissatisfied with corruption in the Interior Ministry

A dark cloud is hovering over the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan Mammetkhan Chakyev. President, Berdymukhamedov on September 21, gave him a stern reprimand with a final warning. This is the first reprimand to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for an incomplete year of work as minister. According […]

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Kazakhstan: the level of bribery increased by 11% over the year

For eight months of 2020, 1,600 corruption and other offenses were committed in Kazakhstan against the interests of the civil service and public administration. This is 12.6% less than in the same period in 2019. However, as analysts from the Finprom agency have calculated, almost two-thirds of the offenses committed are bribery. So at the […]

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Turkmenistan: the authorities pardoned 815 prisoners

President of Turkmenistan Berdimuhamedow signed a decree pardoning 815 prisoners, three of them are foreign citizens. This action is timed to the 29th anniversary of the country’s independence celebrated on September 27th. The decree was signed at an extended government meeting on September 24. Berdimuhamedow instructed regional governors to provide jobs for those pardoned, even […]

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Kyrgyzstan: the rights of doctors fighting COVID-19 massively violated

Health care workers in Kyrgyzstan have paid an exceptionally high personal cost in the fight against COVID-19. They were forced to work overtime for many days, often not receiving the promised additional payments and being held in quarantine conditions, comparable to prison. These are the conclusions drawn by the authors of the Amnesty International report. […]

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The death penalty completely abolished in Kazakhstan

Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan with the UN Kairat Umarov signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty. Recall that this protocol was adopted by resolution 44/128 of the UN General Assembly on December 15, 1989. The official accession of Kazakhstan to the Protocol […]

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