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News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Paris-Geneva, November 8, 2022 – Draft law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Non-Profit Non-Governmental Organisations" would restrict the freedom of (...)

PRESS RELEASE - THE OBSERVATORY Paris-Geneva, November 8, 2022 – Draft law of the Kyrgyz Republic "On Non-Profit Non-Governmental Organisations" would…

Dear Mr. President: We write because your administration’s consistently yielding response to the Israeli government’s escalating attacks against…

June 10, 2010 started like any other day for Semetei Akhmatov. The then-21-year-old packed his bag and headed to university in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, where he was in the second year of a law degree.  But he never returned.  “We have no information about him since then. Twelve years have passed but they are like 12 days for us,” Zhyldyzkan Eskulova, Semetei’s mother, told IWPR. “Semetei was in the spring of his life…He had transferred to the correspondence department...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, stand in solidarity with Mongolian human rights defender Sukhgerel Dugersuren and strongly condemn the…

Paris-Geneva, 25 July, 2022 – July 25, 2022 marks the second anniversary of Azimjan Askarov's death in custody due to the appalling detention (...)

Kyrgyz authorities have yet to conclude an effective investigation into the death of the human rights defender Azimjon Askarov or to provide redress for his decade of wrongful imprisonment, Human Right watch said today as the second anniversary of his death nears.

Kyrgyzstan’s government has unleashed the unprecedented charge of “war propaganda” in a mounting campaign against critical journalists.