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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree emphasizing that evidence obtained under torture is inadmissible in the country's courts, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court dealt a heavy blow to freedom of speech on November 30 by upholding three defamation rulings punishing critics for apparently insulting the “honor and dignity” of the now former President, Almazbek Atambayev, Human Rights Watch said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on November 27 sentenced Makhambet Abzhan, a local property rights activist, to 3 1/2 years in jail after finding him guilty on charges of fraud. The Saryarqa District Court also ordered the confiscation of Abzhan's property, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned an attack on the family home of an exiled Turkmen human rights activist in Turkmenistan’s northern city of Dashoguz, where his 76-year-old mother lives alone, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s President-elect Sooronbai Jeenbekov should demonstrate from the outset that he intends to put human rights front and center when he takes office in December, Human Rights Watch said on October 19. Jeenbekov’s government should reverse the human rights backsliding that accelerated in the months leading up to the presidential election, reaffirm the importance of an independent media, and respect the important role of independent groups and activists, the rights watchdog said. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — A U.S.-based human rights group has called on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to publicly raise concerns about the fate of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Tajikistan, where the authorities say they have drawn up a registry of gay and lesbian citizens, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
