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26.03.2007 10:53 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The Jogorku Kenesh (national parliament) discussed abolition of prosecution for polygamy. Acting legislation (Article 153 of the Criminal Code) stipulates up to two years imprisonment for polygamy. Its abolition was suggested by Justice Minister Marat Kaiypov.
21.03.2007 11:49 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Ruslan Sharipov Winner of Golden Pen'2004 Award of the World Association of Newspapers, laureate of Freedom of Expression'2004 Award, recipient of Human Rights Watch and IWPR grants, journalist, human rights activist Ruslan Sharipov departed Uzbekistan in October 2004, fleeing prosecution at the han
09.03.2007 19:31 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Lawyer Tatiana Davydova told Uznews.net that the Transport Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan intends to complete investigation of the case of human rights activist Umida Niyazova within a week.
07.03.2007 13:50 msk Human Rights Russia
Twelve Ivanovo Uzbeks out of thirteen were finally released from the municipal detention cell. It happened at 4.30 p.m. on March 5. A group of OMON servicemen escorted the former arrestees to the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs where everyone filled out a request to Gerasimov, Chi
06.03.2007 08:41 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Sources in the capital of Turkmenistan say that the Supreme Court sentenced Ovezgeldy Atayev, former chairman of the Mejlis dismissed when President Saparmurat Niyazov passed away, to five years imprisonment. The Supreme Court met to discuss the matter behind the closed doors.
28.02.2007 10:43 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An international group of intellectuals comprising such celebrities as Andrey Bitov, Shavkhat Abdusalyamov and Andrey Babitskiy addressed Uzbekistan president Islom Karimov requesting three political prisoners - Umida Niyazova, Mutabhar Tajibayeva and Gulbhakhor Turaeva being set free.
26.02.2007 17:05 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Sources in Ashkhabad report that police checkpoints manning the Ashkhabad - Nebit-Dag (Balkanabat) road these last several years have finally been removed. (The checkpoints logged every vehicle and every passenger passing them.)
21.02.2007 12:11 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Annadurdy Hajiev, member of the Executive Council of the Sociopolitical Movement Watan and ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, was arrested in Bulgaria on February 21. Watan issued a statement demanding his release.
21.02.2007 09:34 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Sources in the Bishkek office of the Directorate of the UN High Commissar for Refugees maintain that another group of refugees departed Kyrgyzstan for the United States, Canada, and Austria. Numbering 19 people, the group mostly comprises citizens of Uzbekistan who ended up in the neighbor country i
09.02.2007 19:14 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Larisa Kuznetsova, 55. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Applying for an appointment with Buritosh Mustafayev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, on the visiting day January 31, six citizens of Uzbekistan never expected that it would end in so bizarre a manner. Insisting to see Mustafayev, they were dr
02.02.2007 17:19 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Turkmenbashi's Ovadan-Depe. Photo from Dogryyol
02.02.2007 14:54 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Umida Niyazova The latest reports indicate that Umida Niyazova, journalist and human rights activist arrested in Uzbekistan, is questioned and tortured. Interrogation sessions last fifteen hours.
31.01.2007 08:48 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Tashkent Municipal Court sentenced Kobuljon Obidov, former hokim or governor of the Andijan region, to a year imprisonment (sentence suspended). Some reports indicated that Obidov was charged with orchestration of the May 2005 events in Andijan.
30.01.2007 15:23 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
According to Zatoka's wife Yevgenia, charges under four articles of the Criminal Code were pressed against the environmentalist.
22.01.2007 09:04 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Marina Ivanova, the widow of Alexander Ivanov shot by AF Base Gansi personnel, sued the US Administration for an indemnity, said a prominent lawyer who would represent her family in court.
19.01.2007 16:25 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Turkmen human rights activists claim that 23 prisoners were executed in Ovadan-Depe. Republican Interior Ministry denounces the reports as false.
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