• Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan has failed to adequately address abuses in the south, in particular against ethnic Uzbeks, undermining long-term efforts to promote stability following inter-ethnic clashes in 2010. Despite an uneasy calm, ethnic Uzbeks are still subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, and extortion. Human rights defender Azimjon Askarov remains wrongfully imprisoned. Violence and discrimination against women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons remain serious concerns as do continued restrictions on media freedoms. Although authorities adopted new legislation to help prevent torture, ill-treatment and torture remain pervasive in places of detention, and perpetrators go unpunished.
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    Kyrgyzstan: Investigate, Prosecute Police Abuse
    The Kyrgyz authorities should carry out a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the alleged police beatings of people held in a temporary detention facility in southern Kyrgyzstan.
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  • Human Rights, Hashtags and the UK's Policy Towards Central Asia
    Jun 21, 2013
  • Kyrgyzstan, Violence vs Justice
    Jun 16, 2013
    Even in the basement of the courthouse, safe behind a closed door, I’m sure the defendant could still hear the women screaming at him. I certainly could hear the women, standing just metres away, and I definitely felt their violent rage as one hit me in the arm, shouting at me - “What are you drawing in your notebook, girl, what are you drawing?” - as I walked out of the courthouse.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 13 June
    Jun 13, 2013
  • Russia/Kyrgyzstan: Overturn Extradition Orders
    Jun 13, 2013
    Russia’s Supreme Court should stop the extradition of three ethnic Uzbeks to Kyrgyzstan, where they would be at serious risk of torture. On June 19, 2013, the court is scheduled to hear an appeal of the prosecutor general’s decision to extradite Gairatbek Saliev, in response to a request by the Kyrgyz government for his extradition to stand trial on multiple charges relating to the June 2010 interethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan.
  • Kyrgyzstan: 3 Years After Violence, a Mockery of Justice
    Jun 7, 2013
    Justice for crimes committed during the ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010 remains elusive and the authorities’ commitment to accountability is in doubt. Many people have gone on trial in connection with the violence. But the justice process has been seriously flawed from arrest to conviction and has led to lengthy prison sentences based on unsound convictions.
  • Kyrgyzstan: Protect Uzbek Defendant
    May 16, 2013
    Courtroom violence during a hearing in the case of an ethnic Uzbek on trial for alleged crimes during the June 2010 ethnic violence seriously undermines his right to fair trial. Such violence and hostility has occurred repeatedly during the trial, which began in September 2011, and at other trials of ethnic Uzbeks linked to the 2010 violence.
  • Kyrgyzstan: Rights Defender, Family Beaten
    May 14, 2013
    Kyrgyz authorities should ensure a thorough and effective investigation into the vicious physical assault on Ulugbek Azimov, a prominent Bishkek human rights lawyer, and members of his family.
  • Kyrgyzstan: Violence Mars Supreme Court Hearing
    Apr 4, 2013
    Violence in the courtroom during an April 2, 2013 Supreme Court hearing undermined the fairness and integrity of the process.
  • Kyrgyzstan: Locate Missing Uzbek Refugee
    Feb 25, 2013
    An Uzbek refugee has been missing from Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, since February 18, 2013.
  • Kyrgyzstan: Stop Extradition to Uzbekistan
    Feb 4, 2013
    An appeals court in Bishkek should stop the extradition of a former Imam to Uzbekistan, where he would be at serious risk of torture.
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