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...
TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2019
Joint Letter: Turkmenistan Country Strategy Review by the EBRD
On 18 June 2019, International Partnership, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch sent a joint letter to the president of the...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2019
EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue: EU to raise key fundamental rights issues
On 24 June 2019, the fifteenth round of the EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue will take place in Brussels. A briefing paper prepared for the dialogue...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2019
Tajikistan: Torture, ill-treatment, the death penalty and the shrinking space for NGOs
International Partnership for Human Rights, the NGO Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) prepared a joint...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Kazakhstan: civil society calls on the authorities to put a stop to the wave...
Following the mass arbitrary restrictions of rights and freedoms of the people by state representatives in Nur-Sultan and Almaty on 9 and 10 June...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Kazakh human rights lawyer harassed
Yesterday morning Aiman Umarova found the family dog killed in her garden. The killing of her dog is the latest of a series of...
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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2019
Kazakhstan: Cease undue pressure on young civic activist Beybarys Tolymbekov
The Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law (KIBHR) and International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) are seriously concerned about the...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2019
Uzbekistan: Stop harassing human rights defenders Agzam Turgunov and Dilmurod Saidov
The Uzbekistani authorities should end the harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders, Agzam Turgunov and Dilmurod Saidov, and allow them to continue their...
TurkmenistanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
The EU adopts important benchmarks, as repression continues in Turkmenistan
This report reviews the protection of freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Turkmenistan from the end of December 2018 to the end...