International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) and Civil Rights Defenders condemn the spate of criminal char...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to drop their criminal case against the independent broadcaster Next TV, free media director Taalai Duishembiyev, and stop harassing staff report...
On 9 August, the Uzbekistani journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was arrested in Bishkek by officials of the State Committee for State Security of Kyrgyzstan. Civil Rights Defenders, together with several...
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...
In Kyrgyzstan, human rights defender Kamil Ruziev is facing forgery charges that appear to have been brought in retaliation for his human rights work. Civil Rights Defenders, together with four other ...
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...
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