The Media Policy Institute in Kyrgyzstan issued an urgent appeal stating that the republic’s media community is extremely concerned about the new large-scale threat to press freedom in connection with the persecution of Kyrgyz journalists and activists on the Internet. “We believe that such actions are aimed at suppressing the alternative opinion in the country […]
On November 27, the Regional Criminal court found six former Interior Ministry officers of Andijan guilty and announced the verdict: five officers were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison, the sixth criminal participant would spend one year in colony. Thus, the criminal case on the death of Alijon Abdukarimov, who did not bear […]
Employees of the Ombudsman Institute of Kyrgyzstan took part in a working meeting, which was held at the initiative of the State Service for the Execution of Punishments with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the public fund “Lawyers for human rights”. During the meeting, the results of monitoring of […]
In order to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19, the Ombudsman of Kyrgyzstan appealed to the Supreme Court in August this year concerning the possibility of applying preventive measures not related to detention in relation to suspects and defendants. In its response letter dated September 7, the Supreme Court wrote that “the pandemic is […]
The director of the Agency for Information and Mass Communications under the Presidential administration, Asadjon Khodjaev, accused three online publications of bias and warned of “serious legal consequences”. He wrote about them on November 23 in the letter addressed to the editorial office of Kun.uz. The reason for the threats was the publication of critical […]
The screening in Sweden ended the world premiere of the documentary “Only the devil lives without hope”. Its hero was Iskandar Khudaibergenov, who was sentenced to death in Uzbekistan during the repressions. For the first time, viewers saw the film in March 2020. It was in Copenhagen (Denmark). Since then, it has been shown in […]
According to official statistics, there are no cases of coronavirus among the detainees in temporary detention facilities. However, monitoring of the institution of Ombudsman showed that the information of the Main Department of Internal Affairs is unreliable. This is stated in the report of human rights defenders. So, for the period from April to November […]
The administration of Tashkent purchased the portraits of the President for $ 96,000 in May this year. The spending of almost a billion sums [the national currency] for 4965 photographs did not seem dubious to officials during the problems with the supply of food and essential goods to the population. The portraits were purchased as […]
On November 24, Kurmanbek Dyikanbaev, the President’s plenipotentiary in Parliament, was detained on suspicion of committing a crime under article 320 part 3 “Abuse of official position”. This was reported by the press service of the State Committee for National Security. Dyikanbaev was placed in the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee. The investigation […]
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