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14.09.2007 16:21 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
UN experts say that human traffic is the third most lucrative criminal undertaking after deals with drugs and merchandise. This problem was first formulated in the early 20th century when most European countries signed an international treaty in Paris (1904) against this evil. That was how the term
10.09.2007 11:53 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Turkmen National Security Minister Geldymuhammed Ashirmuhammedov said addressing enlarged meeting of the Cabinet last week that preparations for another amnesty were under way.
10.08.2007 19:20 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
President of Turkmenistan Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov signed a decree amnestying eleven prisoners at the enlarged meeting of the Cabinet on August 9. One of the prisoners to be released is Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah, ex-mufti of Turkmenistan tried and sentenced for attempt on the life of the late Presid
27.07.2007 14:52 msk Human Rights Tajikistan
Second round of Dovlatmo Ismailova's battle with the national education system begins in the Dushanbe Municipal Court next week. Student Ismailova insists on her right to attend classes in the hijab [shawl covering face and hands all Moslem women must wear outdoors - Ferghana.Ru] . The Ministry of E
20.07.2007 18:29 msk Human Rights Tajikistan
Abdul-Karim Ergashev, citizen of Tajikistan and ex-prisoner in Guantanamo, intends to slap US President George W. Bush and the Pentagon with an injury claim.
20.07.2007 13:17 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Myra Ritman of the US, the last of the Human Rights Watch personnel, is leaving Uzbekistan this Sunday. Andrea Berg has already left the country (her accreditation issued in autumn 2005 expired and the authorities refused to extend it).
16.07.2007 10:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is desperately trying to create the illusion that observance of human rights is the first priority of the regime. Several recent events, each of them nothing but a sham, are calculated to leave precisely this impression. Capital punishment was abolished in Uzbekistan and the power to orde
12.07.2007 19:22 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A new special prison is being built in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, a facility for senior state officials. Another prison is being built as well in the republic, this one for lifers (capital punishment is to be abolished as of 2008).
11.07.2007 11:05 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan was abolished on June 25, 2007, when President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed the appropriate law. Liberalization of penal legislation seems to be finally under way but some human rights activists who have longed for it remain skeptical while others say that lifers' positi
09.07.2007 10:22 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Press Center of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists (Uzbekistan) reports with references to sources in the republican Interior Ministry that a new colony for convicted civil servants was built in the Yunus-Abad district of Tashkent (Gvardeiskaya mahallja).
09.06.2007 12:40 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Gulnara Saitbayeva, Die Deutsche Welle correspondent in Uzbekistan, reports that the republican authorities control all transactions from abroad. Saitbayeva's source in local secret services claims that it is supposed to establish contacts between Uzbek journalists and human rights activists on the
06.06.2007 12:30 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Die Deutsche Welle web site reports charges against its correspondents in Uzbekistan Yuri Chernogayev, Sajera Ruzikulova, and Obid Shabanov dropped. They were initially accused of work without accreditation, tax evasion, slander against the president, and prejudiced reports on the events in Uzbekist
30.05.2007 10:11 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
President of Kyrgyzstan signed the law "On citizenship" adopted by the parliament on May 27. "The law lists the grounds, terms, and procedures of obtaining and voiding the citizenship of the Kyrgyz Republic and handles all other related issues including those pertaining dual citizenship," presidenti
22.05.2007 19:48 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Die Deutsche Welle reports a stiffer control regime on the Turkmen state borders. Passports and outbound shipments are rigorously examined. Observers ascribe it to the purges the authorities mounted in the republican security structures.
10.05.2007 13:01 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
UN Commission on Human Rights; The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
10.05.2007 12:59 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Uznews.net reports that the refugees who returned to Andijan from the United States fled the country again, unable to live under the pressure from Uzbek secret services.
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