KazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2015
Raising concerns about torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at the 2015 OSCE Human...
At this year’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw, representatives of the coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2012
Kazakhstan: Sought extremism bans threaten to eliminate political pluralism
Brussels, Almaty 22 November 2012. The initiative to have two prominent opposition groups and leading opposition media outlets banned on vague “extremism” allegations signals...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
EU: Raise free speech and torture cases with Kazakhstan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) call on the EU to prominently...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2017
Turkmenistan’s human rights record up for UN review: NGOs document new decline in freedoms...
At its session in Geneva this week, the UN Human Rights Committee will review Turkmenistan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
KazakhstanReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2019
Kazakhstan: Reinforced authoritarianism – Sentencing of opposition activists, surveillance of citizens
Ongoing state surveillance and restrictions on freedoms of information and expression imposed by the authorities continue to be a cause of concern. The government passed a resolution that mandates government agencies to block internet and communications networks in a situation of “state of emergency...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2013
Kazakhstan: Perpetrators of journalist attack convicted, masterminds still to be brought to justice
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) welcomes news that four perpetrators of the brutal April 2012 attack on Kazakhstani journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov have been...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2018
Positive civic space developments in Kyrgyzstan: some activists hopeful, some still wary
This update covers events from 1st March to 30th April 2018 and was prepared by Legal Prosperity Foundation and International Partnership for Human Rights...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2022
Uzbekistan: Human rights activist Aziz Yusupov on trial on spurious charges
The trial of Aziz Yusupov, an Uzbek human rights activist, independent journalist and former political prisoner from the city of Ferghana in Uzbekistan, is...
KyrgyzstanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesAugust 2020
Kyrgyzstan: No forced return to Uzbekistan for Bobomurod Abdullayev
On 9 August, Uzbekistani journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was arrested in Bishkek by officials of the State Committee for State Security (SKNB) of Kyrgyzstan. Amnesty...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2020
Tajikistan: Transparency key to building public trust on COVID-19
“We want to believe that this virus will spare us, Inshallah,“ a Facebook user in Tajikistan writes in an appeal to the authorities. “Please...