Preliminary court hearings in the case of the former minister of Health of Kazakhstan Yelzhan Birtanov and his deputy Olzhas Abishev ended with the court returning the criminal case to the Prosecutor General’s Office to eliminate violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure. As ACCA has already reported, the trial of Birtanov and Abishev began […]
The National News Agency of Uzbekistan reported in its publication that over the past five years there have been no escapes in penitentiary institutions that can be called prisons. It received this information from the Department for the Execution of Punishments under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In total, there are 54 correctional colonies in […]
The Public Foundation “Common cause” conducted a study to determine the level of confidence of Kyrgyzstan’s citizens in the parliamentary elections held in November 2021. As part of this sociological study, the Foundation collected the opinions of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic about how they relate to the past elections of parliamentarians and how much […]
On January 26, Tatyana Dovlatova was attacked and tried to knock out her smartphone by the chairman of the citizens’ assembly in Rakatbashi mahalla. The human rights activist broadcast live on a social network and talked about lawlessness in this part of Tashkent, where Sattor Rakhimov feels like a sovereign owner and illegally disposes of […]
On January 20, the Court of Pervomaiskiy district of Bishkek, having considered the complaint of the lawyer Avtandil Bakytbek, recognized the inactivity of the State Committee for National Security in the investigation into the death of human rights activist Azimzhan Askarov as unfounded. The complaint was filed due to the fact that the investigator of […]
The rallies in early January, that took place in Kazakhstan, not only led to a redistribution of power, which led to the resignation of many officials, but also became a trigger for several suicides. For example, on January 26, it became known that Ruslan Shamshiev, Managing Director for Legal Affairs of the EPO Operator company, […]
The Sary-Arka District Court No. 2 of the city of Nur-Sultan began preliminary hearings on a criminal case against former minister of Health Yelzhan Birtanov and his deputy Olzhas Abishev. They are both suspected of embezzlement of budgetary funds. As ACCA has already reported, Yelzhan Birtanov was arrested in November last year. As noted then […]
Transparency International, an international anti-corruption non-governmental organization, has published its Annual survey “Corruption Perceptions Index – 2021”. In this study, Turkmenistan dropped 4 points down to 169th place, the same result as Burundi and Congo. Turkmenistan’s index is the worst among Central Asian countries; Kazakhstan has 37 scores, Uzbekistan – 28, Kyrgyzstan – 27 and […]
The Institute of the Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic helped a Kyrgyz woman, who was in custody for a year and four months, to prove her innocence. She was subjected to groundless criminal prosecution by an investigator of the Investigative Service of the Lenin District Department of Internal Affairs. On May 20, 2021, defendant A.A.O. […]
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