21.09.2022
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Kyrgyzstan: Torture victim intends to apply to the UN Committee

They took off the pants and beat her with a flask on the genitals. This is how 45-year-old Nargiza Razhapova was tortured by operational officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh city in connection with the possible involvement in the murder of police lieutenant colonel of the Department of Internal Affairs of Osh […]

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Kyrgyzstan: Interior Ministry officers were arrested for extorting bribe

In Kyrgyzstan, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime under the Ministry of Internal Affairs were detained for extorting $6,000. A citizen addressed the State Committee for National Security with a statement about taking measures against employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. According to the man, law enforcement officials extort […]

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Tajikistan: the trial of a well-known blogger will be open, but in the building of the pre-trial detention center

The trial of a well-known social media blogger and MMA fighter Chorshanbe Chorshanbiev will take place in the pre-trial detention center of the Ministry of Justice. This was announced today, February 23, by the Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity. According to this public organization, the first hearing in the case will take place […]

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Tajikistan: Mother of the victim of torture demands compensation for moral damage

A lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the country was sent to the Somoni District Court of Dushanbe demanding compensation for moral damages in connection with the ineffective investigation into the circumstances of the death of Khurshed Bobokalonov and the failure to comply with the recommendations of the […]

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Kazakhstan: Police officers tortured six detainees to death

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan caught the Ministry of Internal Affairs lying; it repeatedly and categorically denied the use of torture on detainees after the January events. Rizabek Ozharov, head of the Special Prosecutor Service under the Prosecutor General’s Office, said that cases of torture of persons under investigation were transferred to a specially […]

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Uzbekistan: Deputies are in no hurry to extradite the mayor of Andijan to the Prosecutor’s Office

Deputies of Andijan kengash (council) of people’s deputies have been in no hurry to consider petition of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office (dated February 3) to initiate a criminal case against hokim Bakhromjon Khaydarov. The legislation provides for the deprivation of a deputy of immunity by the decision of the kengash within 10 days. The resolution […]

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Kyrgyzstan: police officers, who were guilty of death due to torture, escaped imprisonment

The trial has ended in the court of first instance on the case of the death of Muhammad Kanibek uulu from torture. The defendants, the policemen, were found guilty, but their real terms of imprisonment were replaced by probation.  In court, the defendants asked for acquittals. The prosecutor asked to appoint five defendants 9 years […]

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Turkmenistan: Prisons are filled with prisoners artificially

Over the past year, the number of prisoners in Turkmen prisons has dropped to 33,500. According to ACCA sources in the Department of Execution of Sentences under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, prisoners in Turkmen prisons are going through the most difficult times. Our sources explain this by the fact that in the […]

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Kyrgyzstan: Human rights activists proposed amendments to the draft law “On extremism”

On February 17-18, representatives of the human rights movement “One World (Bir Duino)”, the head of Osh office Khusanbay Saliev and the executive director Aida Baizhumanova took part in a visiting meeting of the working group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to finalize the draft law “On counteracting extremist activity”. For two days, the […]

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