Three international human rights organizations issued a statement on May 3 expressing concerns over the fate of Suhrob Zafar, a leader of outlawed opposition Group 24 movement, whose whereabouts have been unknown since early March.
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has accused the United States of making "false" statements over the controversial "foreign agents" law being pushed through parliament and protests that have seen several Georgians injured by security forces.
The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office said on May 3 that a court in Astana had ruled that former Interior Minister Erlan Turghymbaev, who was detained this week on a charge of abuse of office and power, must stay in pretrial detention for at least two months
A military court in Moscow on May 3 extended the pretrial detention until at least October 22 for theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk in a high-profile terrorism case that rights defenders call trumped-up.