In Kyrgyzstan, the former mayor of Bishkek, Aziz Surakmatov, and the head of the district administration of the State Committee for National Security were detained. This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office. On May 26, the ex-mayor of Bishkek, Aziz Surakmatov, was summoned for questioning by the State Committee for National Security as a […]
A servicewoman of the contract service of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, corporal Natalya Silina reported threats from the leadership of the Department. The woman is worried about her physical safety. According to Natalya Silina, after she told reporters about the difficult financial situation and the unseemly situation that […]
A man, who is kept in a pre-trial detention center №1 in Bishkek, complained to the Ombudsman about the employees of the Pervomaisky Department of Internal Affairs. He reported that they severely beat him, breaking his head. Due to the unbearable torture that the police officers used, the man tried to commit suicide by hanging. […]
The authorities of Turkmenistan continue to hide the real death rate among the population from COVID-19. An ACCA source said that only in the city of Balkanabat, the same number of people died in a year as in the past 5.5 years. Approximately the same statistics is in other cities of the country. We checked […]
Activists reported new facts of torture in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the head of the organization “Human Rights in Central Asia” Nadejda Atayeva, Alexander Trofimov, who is being tortured, is kept in Tashturma. His position in custody is aggravated by his disability. As Atayeva notes, “during the inquiry, a […]
Public and political figure Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, who held the post of adviser to the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in 2008-2013, admitted that the arrest of the human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis in 2009 was politically motivated. Yertysbayev made such a statement in an interview with the program “Work on the bugs!” The […]
The pre-trial investigation authorities don’t pay due attention to the issues of proving the guilt of the suspect before bringing him/her to justice. As a result of this negligence, more than two thousand citizens have been illegally detained over the past six years. Such a verdict is contained in the Concept to the draft “On […]
Before the early presidential elections, Sadyr Japarov received $ 10 million from Sooronbai Jeenbekov and his brother Asylbek Jeenbekov. This was stated in the letter of the activist Melis Aspekov, who is in the detention center of the State Committee for National Security. The document was posted on his Facebook page. According to Aspekov, after […]
A trial in the case of Yerzhan Gabdullin, a former judge of the Specialized Inter-district Economic Court, has begun in the Kazybi District Court of the city of Karaganda. Yerzhan Gabdullin was detained on February 5 this year. As it became known then to ACCA, the judge received a large sum of money for assisting […]
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