Tajikistan’s Investigators Rely Heavily on Violence – UN
The United Nation’s chief torture inspector has wrapped up a trip to Dushanbe, where he found that police and prosecutors employ violence against detainees as their “main investigatory tool.” He called...
View ArticleRussia Condemning Central Asian Suspects to Torture, Rights Groups Say
Abdulvosi Latipov had been in and out of Russian courts facing extradition hearings for years. Authorities in his native Tajikistan wanted to try Latipov, who allegedly fought with the opposition...
View ArticleTajikistan’s Security Services Kidnap and Torture Child – News Report
Reports of torture in Tajikistan’s police stations and KGB holding cells are common. But even by Tajik standards, a case that surfaced today is shocking. A mother in Dushanbe says the security services...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Use Amnesty to Release Political Prisoners – Rights Groups
Human rights groups are calling on Uzbekistan’s government to use a Constitution Day amnesty to release political prisoners, not just petty criminals. Authorities often mark Constitution Day, December...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Report Ties Uzbekistan to CIA Black Ops
EurasiaNet.org has already called attention to how Azerbaijan and Georgia assisted the CIA in carrying out a secret program to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists. But let’s not forget that...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Red Cross Gives Up on Prison Visits
The International Committee of the Red Cross will no longer try to visit prisoners in Uzbekistan because authorities are not allowing ICRC officials private access as promised, the organization said on...
View ArticleAmnesty Raps Post-Soviet States for Renditions
Security services across the former Soviet Union are increasingly collaborating to send Central Asian nationals – often critics and others with legitimate asylum requests – home to countries where they...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Watchdog Signals Alarm over Torture, Prison Conditions
Torture and inhumane methods of confinement are rife in Kazakhstan, global human rights watchdog Amnesty International alleged in a new report published on July 11.The report, “Old Habits: The routine...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Torture Victim Wins Landmark Ruling
A man in northern Kazakhstan who was the victim of police torture has won a seven-year legal battle for damages, after a court upheld a ruling that he is entitled to financial compensation for his...
View ArticleUzbekistan Holding Thousands of Political Prisoners – Watchdog
As Gulnara Karimova, the embattled daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman President Islam Karimov, stares the prospect of a jail term in the face, a new report by an international human rights watchdog...
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