Civil Rights Defenders mourns the passing of prominent human rights defender and journalist Azimjon Askarov and expresses its sincere condolences to his family at this difficult time. At 8...
Monday 15 June marks ten years since human rights defender and journalist Azimjon Askarov’s arbitrary arrest in southern Kyrgyzstan. Since then, Askarov, now 69 years old, has suffered a decade of int...
Today’s decision by Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court to leave human rights defender Azimjon Askarov in jail is a stain on the government’s human rights record. Civil Rights Defenders urges...
On 11 and 13 May, Kyrgyz courts are scheduled to hold two separate court hearings in the case of Azimjon Askarov, a human rights defender and journalist who is imprisoned for life in retaliation for h...
In an open letter, Civil Rights Defenders and eight other organisations urge the President of Kyrgyzstan, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, to release wrongfully imprisoned human rights defender and journalist Azi...
On 25 February, Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court will review the appeal by Azimjon Askarov, a local human rights defender imprisoned for life in September 2010 in retaliation for his work. Ci...
In a joint letter, Civil Rights Defenders and six other international human rights groups urge Gulbara Kaliyeva, Chairperson of Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court, to ensure wrongfully imprisoned human rights...
In connection to the upcoming EU-Central Asia Ministerial meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 7 July, Civil Rights Defenders and seven other international human rights groups have urged EU High Represen...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to fulfil their international commitments to protect civil and political rights by immediately releasing human rights defender and journalist Az...
Four years ago, during two media appearances in Berlin and Bishkek, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev publicly announced that he had no interest in keeping an innocent man in jail. The man Atambayev...
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