Olga Voronko, a well-known journalist of the Internet media Ratel.kz, received an unusual New Year’s gift from the law enforcement agency. A criminal case was opened against her under part 5 of article 147 of the Criminal Code – “Dissemination of information about the private life of a person constituting his personal or family secret, […]
A member of the ANGO Coalition “Human Rights Advocacy Center” published the data from the monitoring of court hearings to verify the legality and justification of detention and the application of a preventive measure. The purpose of the study was to determine the degree of compliance of the practice of investigating judges of the Kyrgyz […]
According to independent media of Turkmenistan, on December 28, at the age of 64, a Turkmen political prisoner Yazgeldy Gundogdyev died in the colony AH-K/6 of the city of Tejen in Akhal region. He was charged with complicity in the attempted coup d’état on November 25, 2002. Unable to withstand the torture in the investigative […]
Examples of judicial arbitrariness refute the claims of the authorities about the coming “decriminalization” of articles for libel, in fact, even more threatening civic activism after the recent legislative initiatives. On December 17, the Administrative court of Chilanzar region found a resident of Tashkent, Valentina Ermetova, guilty of libel and ordered to pay a fine […]
The head of the municipal enterprise is accused of holding a fictitious auction for the provision of temporary use of land in the capital. This is reported by the State Committee for National Security of the republic. The investigation found that in 2017, officials of the mayor’s office of Bishkek, the Land Resources Department and […]
A man, sentenced to 8 years in prison, is trying to bring to justice the police officers who has tortured him. The Kyrgyz courts refused to initiate a criminal case. He filed an individual complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee. This was reported by the human rights organization “Bir Duino” [“One World”]. In December […]
Prosecutors summon bloggers, activists, political scientists and public figures for their publications on social networks related to election polls. According to prosecutors, such publications are a violation of electoral legislation. Daniyar Ashimbaev, a well-known political scientist of Kazakhstan, editor-in-chief of the biographical encyclopedia “Who’s who in Kazakhstan”, was one of the first to report […]
Ex-customs officer Raiymbek Matraimov, suspected of involvement in corruption schemes at customs, fully compensated damage to the state in the amount of $ 24.2 million (2 billion KGS). This was reported by the press service of the State Committee for National Security of the republic. As clarified in the Department, Matraimov transferred $ 16.9 million […]
A member of the Coalition against Torture in Kyrgyzstan “Human Rights Advocate Center” monitored the court hearings for the legality and justification of detention and the application of a preventive measure. The purpose of the monitoring is to determine the degree of compliance with the practice of investigative judges of the Kyrgyz Republic in exercising […]
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