Erulan Amirov, a civil activist from Chimkent, was sent to a psychiatric clinic by a court decision for compulsory treatment for one month. At the same time, relatives and friends of the activist claim that he was never registered with a mental hospital and that he was taken to a mental hospital in order to […]
International Day in support of victims of torture, on June 26, was celebrated by President Mirziyoyev by signing a decree “On additional measures to improve the system for detecting and preventing cases of torture”. The coincidence of the date of the UN and the day of the adoption of the document corresponds to the practice […]
Employees of the territorial office of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture of the Kyrgyz Republic during a sudden inspection of temporary detention facilities of the Internal Affairs Department of Batken district revealed facts of violation of the rights of detainees and inhumane treatment of them. As the check showed, 26 people were […]
The total damage in the case of illegal enrichment against the elected representative of the people was about $ 588.2 thousand (50 million KGS). The rest sum should be received in the near future. This was reported by the press service of the State Committee for National Security. The day before, the deputy Aliyarbek Abzhaliev, […]
In 2019, a resident of Bishkek, Vladimir Kosash, said that the officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of Oktyabrsky district tortured him during his arrest. The National Center for the Prevention of Torture is in charge of bringing the police officers to justice. On January 17, 2019, the police officers arrived at the address […]
The head and one of the founders of Kun.uz media, Makhsudjon Askarov, was fined $ 1,156 by the Chilanzar District Criminal Court of Tashkent on June 21 for materials of religious content published on the website. The administrative case was opened following the results of a religious examination of materials within the framework of Internet […]
The territorial office of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture of Kyrgyzstan announced the results of special preventive visits to closed institutions in Osh city and Osh region. In June this year, employees of the territorial office of the National Center of the Kyrgyz Republic for the Prevention of Torture visited the pre-trial […]
Former director of the morgue of Almaty, Bakhytzhan Alibekov, was sentenced to 8 years in prison, accused of illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity, misappropriation and embezzlement of entrusted property on a large scale and an attempt to receive a bribe. Alibekov was detained in October 2020 on suspicion of taking a bribe on an especially […]
The case of abuse of office by representatives of law enforcement agencies occurred in Pavlodar region. A 22-year-old girl, detained by the police officers, was raped. The victim told about this to the well-known Kazakhstani human rights activist Elena Semenova during a meeting in the pre-trial detention center of Pavlodar. As Semenova said in an […]
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