KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2023
Kyrgyzstan: Ensure fair and transparent trial in the Kempir-Abad case
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, urge Kyrgyzstani authorities to ensure strict compliance with due process and fair trial guarantees set out by national...
KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2023
Justice for Torture Victims in Central Asia
“I want justice. A sniper bullet damaged my optic nerve. Later - in pretrial detention, I was beaten so severely over the head that...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2022
Uzbekistan: Human rights defender Aziz Yusupov released but prevented from continuing his work
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Norwegian...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2023
Tajikistan: Release independent human rights defender – civil society appeal on Independence Day
With Tajikistan marking its Independence Day on 9 September 2023, global civil society alliance CIVICUS and the Brussels-based International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2022
Kyrgyzstan: Critics of controversial border deal kept in detention
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) regrets the court decisions to extend the pre-trial detention of well-known civil society activists, human rights defenders and...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2023
Kyrgyzstan: Civil society network calls on Parliament to reject controversial draft legislation on Constitutional...
Members of the Kyrgyzstani Civil Society Network for Monitoring the Justice Sector “Akyikat Karegi”, which was established under an EU-funded project jointly carried out...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2022
Tajikistan: Human rights defenders and journalists sentenced to long prison terms on politically motivated...
“Human rights defenders are not the enemy”. Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, 9 December 2022
Helsinki Foundation for...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2022
Kyrgyzstan: ‘’Foreign agents’’ style draft law poses new serious threat to civil society groups
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) supports calls by local NGOs to members of Kyrgyzstan’s parliament to reject a repressive and stigmatising draft law...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2023
Civil society demands Tajikistan free human rights lawyer on eighth anniversary of arrest
Johannesburg/Brussels - As the eighth anniversary of the unjust detention of Tajikistan human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov approaches, global civil society alliance CIVICUS and the International Partnership for...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2023
Kyrgyzstan: Stop pressuring leading independent news portal, withdraw lawsuit to shut it down
We, the undersigned human rights organisations, are alarmed at the move of Kyrgyzstani authorities to close down the Kloop Media Public Foundation, which manages...