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KABUL (TCA) — The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan has stopped releasing data showing the number of Afghan districts and the percentage of their population controlled by the Kabul government compared to the Taliban, RFE/RL reported.
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ALMATY (TCA) — Dozens of protesters have been detained across Kazakhstan as several hundred people took to the streets to call for the release of all political prisoners and a boycott of the upcoming presidential election, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan has repatriated 84 minors from Iraq, where their Tajik mothers have been imprisoned under charges of belonging to the extremist group Islamic State (IS) or are awaiting trial, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin took part in the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan (Armenia) on April 30. The meeting was also attended by the prime ministers of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Belarus — Syarhey Rumas, Armenia — Nikol Pashinyan, Kyrgyzstan — Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev, and Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (the governing body of the Eurasian Economic Union) Tigran Sargsyan, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Members of China’s Uyghur Muslim population continue to be subject to “egregious abuses” but the government in Beijing has faced few, if any, consequences, a bipartisan U.S. federal commission says in its 2019 annual report on religious freedom worldwide, RFE/RL reported.
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BEIJING (TCA) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the plight of Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in a recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, urging the Chinese leader to respect human rights, RFE/RL reported.
