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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The II Central Asian Dialogue on reduction of prison population and development of probation is taking place from 28 to 31 October in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia, the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman Office), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Asia Group, the British Embassy in Kazakhstan, the Prison Committees of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has proposed that parliament adopt a law on a mass amnesty affecting some 20,000 people, including foreign nationals, to mark the 25th anniversary of the country’s constitution, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The jailed former president of Kazakhstan's uranium giant Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, has been denied early release for the second time in months, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The second retrial of Kyrgyzstan's jailed ethnic Uzbek human rights activist Azimjan Askarov has been moved from July 16 to July 30, human rights activists told RFE/RL. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) -- Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has refused to obey a subpoena calling for him to report to the Interior Ministry in Bishkek for questioning in an unspecified criminal investigation, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — The first Chinese law firm in Uzbekistan opened this week in the capital Tashkent, Xinhua news agency reported. Continue reading
