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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has proposed to parliament a mass amnesty law that would release more than 12,000 convicts, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan on July 12 ruled that the case of ethnic Uzbek activist Azimjon Askarov should be retried and heard by the Chui Oblast Court. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — “Today’s decision can be called historic. The law enforcement system reform should strengthen the law and order, so that ordinary citizens, business, and investments are protected by the law,” Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev said on July 4 at the meeting of the Defense Council which approved a set of measures to reform the country’s law enforcement system, the President’s press service said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The General Prosecutor's Office of Kyrgyzstan has checked the performance of anti-corruption legislation by law enforcement agencies and found that prevention of corruption “is not conducted at the proper level”. Violations have been revealed in the State Service for Combating Economic Crimes, State Service on Drug Control (SSDC), State Customs Service, and Ministry of Internal Affairs. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The legislative reform process of the Justice system in the Kyrgyz Republic over the last years is truly impressive. A lot of efforts in the reform agenda as well as in the sector on access to justice have been undertaken by the state authorities with the support of international donors and organizations. While the pace of change is truly remarkable, the common citizen’s perception of the “rule of law” system remains still relatively poor leading to a so called “legal nihilism”. Indeed what is the sense of the reforms if the common citizen, the one for which the law is done, cannot still tangibly see the results? Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — At the ceremony in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Turkmenistan have signed the Country Programme Action Plan for 2016-2020 (CPAP) and the arrangements for cost-sharing over the five year period, the UNDP Turkmenistan said on June 23. Continue reading
