DUSHANBE (TCA) — The lower house of the parliament of Tajikistan on August 24 passed a new law on mass amnesty proposed by Tajik President

BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev on September 15 ordered the General Prosecutor’s Office to ensure a thorough

TASHKENT (TCA) — The upper house of Uzbekistan’s parliament, the Senate, on October 12 approved acting President Shavkat Mirziyaev's proposal for

ASTANA (TCA) — France's highest administrative court has canceled an extradition order to send fugitive Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia,

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Over 50 policy-makers, justice professionals and other experts from Central Asian and other countries gathered at a regional

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyaev has harshly criticized the country's prosecutors, calling on them to treat ordinary

BISHKEK (TCA) — A Kyrgyz court in Bishkek on January 24 upheld the 2010 guilty verdict and life imprisonment sentence against ethnic Uzbek rights

BISHKEK (TCA) — US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Sheila Gwaltney made remarks at the official opening of the State Forensics Center under the Kyrgyz

ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's Anticorruption Bureau on February 2 said that fugitive Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov has been charged with the

BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev will pay an official visit to Brussels on February 16 to hold talks with the highest EU

BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s 24.kg news agency on March 10 said that pro-presidential Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SDPK) has filed a

BISHKEK (TCA) — Jails are currently overcrowded and penal institutions are seeking solutions to improve jails’ situations, while being able to

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Bishkek municipality has decided to repair the building of Kyrgyzstan’s Prosecutor General's Office that was burned down

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s authorities have launched an "unrelenting assault" against lawyers, particularly those defending government

BISHKEK (TCA) — Early in the morning of June 22, police officers cordoned off the Ak-Keme hotel in Bishkek. All the hotel employees were taken

BISHKEK (TCA) — On 30 June the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh will host a round table “On the protection of lawyers’ rights and ethical

BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced ex-President Askar Akayev's former son-in-law to 20 years in prison in absentia, RFE/RL's

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The former director of Tajikistan’s National Library has gone on trial on charges of violating a law that curtails spending on

BISHKEK (TCA) — The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek said it handed over video surveillance equipment to the State Committee for National

TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree emphasizing that evidence obtained under torture is inadmissible in