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11.02.2015 01:24 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Tajikistan
Journalists based in South Kazakhstan kindly provided Fergana with photographs from the scene of events; said journalists are unable to publish these images in their own mass media.
26.01.2015 00:31 msk Business Central Asia China Human Rights Uzbekistan
The construction of the fourth branch of the Uzbek section of the Central Asia—China gas pipeline will launch in the second half of 2015. An unidentified representative of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNCP) told the RIA Novosti news agency that the construction is estimated to cost $800
16.01.2015 21:30 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Speaking during a show on National Public Radio , Nisha Biswal , the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, said despite serious problems in the field of human rights in Uzbekistan, the US is prepared to practice “strategic patience” towards this country.
26.12.2014 15:00 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Migration Uzbekistan
Two days ago, several more innocent people were convicted for alleged anti-state activities and religious extremism in Uzbekistan. It is a very sad recurring event in this Central Asian country. Human rights activists almost daily toll the bells on torture in pretrial detention facilities and unfair
11.12.2014 13:55 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics
Eamon Gilmore , the former deputy prime minister and the former minister for foreign affairs of Ireland, visited Аzimjan Askarov, a human rights activists imprisoned for life, at the proposal of Front Line Defenders on the eve of the International Human Rights Day. Mr. Askarov has told about his cas
25.11.2014 23:05 msk Human Rights Politics Russia Turkmenistan
On 31 October 2014, the Presnenskiy District Court in Moscow dismissed the complaint lodged by Tatyana Shikhmuradova, the wife of Boris Sikhmuradov who is imprisoned for life in Turkmenistan. Mrs. Shikhmuradova lodged a lawsuit against the foreign affairs ministry of Russia, which has applied no eff
22.11.2014 12:01 msk Business Human Rights Kazakhstan
Roza Tuletayeva, a female convict in the Aktau Prison, has been released. According to Galym Ageleuov, the president of the Liberty Public Fund, mass media outlets, human rights activists and any interested in the events in Janaozen were able to obtain information only thanks to Ms. Tuletayeva.
09.11.2014 00:42 msk Central Asia China Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics Religious life
The Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been unstable over the last several years: Some in the local Uighur population are unhappy with the way the Chinese authorities are handling the region and are demanding independence from Beijing. Armed clashes between the Uighur population of the region and
16.10.2014 10:39 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
A new letter DRD Partnership circulated late Tuesday is entitled “Recent reports about Gulnara are false and deliberately misleading.” “Gulnara” here is the elder daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, while DRD Partnership is a London-based consulting company that calls itself “an official repr
12.10.2014 23:11 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Politics Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Statues of Alisher Navoi and Abdurakhman Jami in Samarkand. The great Turkic poet Alisher Navoi, the founder of the old Uzbek language through his creative works, was also known as the Farsi-speaking poet Alisher Fani. The great Tajik poet Abdurakhman Jami, a mentor and a friend of Navoi’s, said abo
29.09.2014 04:01 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Human Rights Watch presented a report entitled “‘Until the Very End’: Politically Motivated Imprisonment in Uzbekistan” in Warsaw, Poland. The 121-page document is based on 150 in-depth interviews with the relatives of political prisoners, their lawyers, human rights activists and former Uzbek offic
23.09.2014 12:12 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
Many Russian and European mass media circulated images depicting Gulnara Karimova rudely held by hands by people in fatigues. Ms. Karimova’s “official representative,” Locksley Ryan of Davidson Ryan Dore , provided the images in question.
03.09.2014 07:13 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
It was impossible to freely and easily reach one’s destination either on foot or driving in central Tashkent over the last few days of August. The reason for that was rather banal: heavy traffic jams resulting from visits the country’s president was paying to newly-built facilities and buildings in
20.02.2014 11:05 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
The destruction of the shadow business empire Gulnara Karimova built does not indicate her father, the president of Uzbekistan, is growing weak; on the contrary, this is a sign of his might.
07.02.2014 17:15 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan
Photo: A scene from the play White, White Black Stork at Tashkent’s Ilkhom theater.
06.02.2014 23:13 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
The president of Uzbekistan will pay a two-day visit to Prague on 21 Feb 2014. Human rights activists in Europe are preparing to greet Islam Karimov with protest rallies: Mutabar Tajibayeva, the head of the Fiery Hearts Club, promises that they will firmly demand Karimov free all political prisoners
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