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Kazakhstan authorities have failed to prioritize protecting human rights during the country’s current crisis, and should urgently cancel any order to shoot to kill without warning and uphold the rights of those in detention, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022.

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Kyrgyzstan: A Year On, Demand for Justice for Azimjon Askarov’s Death Human Rights Defender Died in Arbitrary Detention Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial and jailed for life looks through metal bars during hearings at the Bishkek regional court, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016.  © 2020 AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin (Brussels) – Kyrgyzstan authorities have yet to conduct an independent investigation into the death in detention on July 25, 2020, of the human rights defender and...

US Courts Central Asian Dictators in Pursuit of Post-Afghan War Objectives Nations including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have some of the world's most abysmal human rights records – but that isn't deterring the Biden administration from seeking to work with them.by Brett Wilkins Posted on As it did while attempting to build a natural gas pipeline through the region in the 1990s and during the early years of the so-called War on Terror, the U.S. government is once again courting Central Asian dictatorships in a bid to secure a military staging area from which it could launch strike...