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29.06.2012 17:43 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
The Soviet-era practice of holding show trials for individuals accused of relatively minor economic crimes is alive and well in Turkmenistan , and local observers say that once in the system, defendants have no chance of a fair hearing. For the state, it is a demonstration of power, and for the secu
26.06.2012 00:41 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Lawyers of Azimzhan Askarov, a human rights defender sentenced to life, insist on review of his case due to new evidence. They have found over a hundred of new witnesses of the June 2010 tragic events in the south of Kyrgyzstan willing to testify at the court. As one recalls, Azimjon Askarov, a huma
30.05.2012 21:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Sukhrobjon Ismoilov, director of the Expert Working Group (Uzbekistan) has distributed a report by the Expert Working Group on new restrictions on Internet for the Uzbek youth. The group finds out, in particular, that in an attempt to win the hearts of the youth in the face of so called “mass cultur
24.05.2012 19:07 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The trial for an elderly Russian lady Tamara Talashmanova who was arrested in Uzbekistan and faced 5 to 7 years in prison for carrying a pack of sedative pills Phenazepam has been canceled. According to the Sverdlov’s public television (Russia) which quotes a statement issued by the office of the Ru
15.05.2012 00:16 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A 73-years-old Russian woman Tamara Talashmanova from a small town of Sysert in Ural has been under home arrest in Uzbekistan since April 26, 2012. The Russian pensioner with no previous criminal record faces 5 to 7 years in prison.
03.05.2012 23:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Trials over journalists like Elena Bondar and Viktor Krymzalov, employee of the UK embassy in Uzbekistan Leonid Kudryavtsev, along with many human rights defenders, such as Tatiana Dovlatova, in particular, vividly demonstrate that the authorities have changed their tactics towards punishing persons
26.04.2012 10:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Today, Dilmurod Saidov is spending his 50th birthday in a prison work camp in Navoi, Uzbekistan . Over the course of the last year, the international community has watched, and debated, as relations between Uzbekistan and the West have steadily improved. But, as we discuss the costs and benefits of
20.04.2012 16:49 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Earlier this year, a formerly well-known banker, doctor of science, journalist and writer Rustam Usmanov who had already served 14 years in prison has been sentenced to additional 5 years while still in jail. His family and even his own defense attorney have learned about this post factum only. Desp
24.02.2012 22:45 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
It’s been reported to Fergana that Rustam Usmanov, formerly a well-known businessman, sentenced to 14 years in prison in Uzbekistan upon a number of tax charges in 1998, has recently been sentenced to another five years in prison under the article 221 of the Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code (“Noncomplianc
31.01.2012 13:49 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Human right activists from a number of international NGOs, including ACAT-France (Action des chretiens pour l'abolition de la torture et des executions capitals), FIDH (The International Federation for Human Rights), Amnesty International-France, the French League for Human Rights (LDH), along with
13.01.2012 18:12 msk Human Rights Tajikistan
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the assault yesterday on the Tajik journalist Dodojon Atovulloev, who was stabbed in a Moscow restaurant, and calls on the Russian police to do all it can to identify his attacker and those behind the crime.
15.12.2011 10:20 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Since June 14, 2010, the France-based Association of “Human rights in the Central Asia” has received a huge amount of complaints filed by citizens of Kyrgyzstan of Uzbek ethnic origin, reporting all kinds of violation of their rights committed by the law enforcement and investigative bodies. As a re
05.12.2011 10:51 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
«Kyrgyzstan: Sexual violence amidst ethnic conflict» - such is the title of the new Report of the Association «Human Rights in Central Asia». Publication of the Report has been timed to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. From 25 November to 10 December 2011 An inter
02.12.2011 10:12 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
In late October, a regional court in Jalal-Abad, southern Kyrgyzstan , convicted and sentenced in absentia to hefty prison terms two ethnic Uzbek media owners, Dzhavlon Mirzakhodzhayev of Mezon TV and Khalil Khudaiberdiyev of Osh TV. Both men were tried in connection to the ethnic conflict that rava
16.11.2011 10:20 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Dzhavlon Mirzakhodzhayev. Photo by © Ferghana Agency
01.09.2011 15:08 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Maxim Popov, born in 1982, civil activist, sentenced to seven years in Uzbek jail in 2009. Freed on June 9, 2011.
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