KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2019
Torture and ill-treatment in Central Asia
Torture and ill-treatment continue to be of widespread concern in all Central Asian countries. Methods of torture which were recorded in Central Asia in...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2019
Central Asia: Protests crushed, NGOs under pressure and activists intimidated
The space for civil society remains narrow in Central Asia as the authorities of the region restrict freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersJuly 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Lawsuits, attacks and harassment used against journalists, activists and human rights defenders
This update covers events from 1st April 2019 to 30th June 2019 and was prepared by Legal Prosperity Foundation Kyrgyzstan and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR). During...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2019
Joint NGO letter to the EU’s Federica Mogherini ahead of Central Asia visit
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and five of its partners sent a joint letter to the EU’s High Representative Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini...
KyrgyzstanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2019
Situation of jailed human rights defender Azimjon Askarov: Open letter to Federica Mogherini
The annual EU-Central Asia Ministerial Meeting is scheduled to take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 7 July 2019. Ahead of this meeting, International Partnership...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Torture in Central Asia: time to break the vicious circle!
One night in July 2018 police officers drove up to Shahboz Ahmadov’s house in the southern Yavan district of Tajikistan and instructed the young...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue: Briefing paper documents civil society concerns
The tenth round of the EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue will take in Brussels on 27 May 2019. A briefing paper prepared for the dialogue...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Some positive civic space developments, but more to be done to keep promises
Despite commitments by President Jeenbekov’s government to improve the human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, and achieve a more constructive relationship with civil society, human...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
NGOs urge Kyrgyzstan to release unjustly imprisoned human rights activist Azimjan Askarov
Bishkek, Brussels, Paris, 12 March 2019: Although the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) ruled in 2016 that 67-year-old human rights defender Azimjan Askarov...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersJanuary 2019
Kyrgyzstan: Ongoing surveillance of NGO workers despite presidential assurances on human rights
The Kyrgyzstani authorities committed to improve the human rights situation in the country. On 10th December 2018, when speaking at a conference in the context of the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration...