Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

Dushanbe’s Long Arm Reaches Into Europe 

A refugee in Vienna, a manufactured terrorism case, and a precedent Austria should not ignore. By Leila Nazgul Seiitbek In April 2026, the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs forwarded to the Ministry of Justice a letter from the Tajik Interior Ministry. It was not a diplomatic note. It was a dossier formally titled […]

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Freedom for Eurasia Condemns Reported Torture of Tajik Political Prisoner Mahmadali Hayit and Calls for International Accountability

Freedom for Eurasia is gravely concerned by reports from the family of Mahmadali Hayit, Deputy Chairman of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), alleging that he has been subjected to torture, physical abuse, and degrading treatment while serving a life sentence in prison. According to relatives who visited Mr. Hayit on 2 June

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Kazakhstan Admitted to Corruption. Nothing Changed.

While the state recovers billions in London and The Hague, oil workers in Kazakhstan still receive a fraction of what they are owed. By Leila Nazgul Seiitbek In January 2026, an international arbitration tribunal in London upheld Kazakhstan’s core claims against the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating consortium – including Shell, Eni, Chevron, and Lukoil – over unlawfully reimbursed costs

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Welcoming the UK’s Action against Russian Sanctions Evasion via Kyrgyzstan and Cryptocurrency Networks

Freedom For Eurasia and State Capture Accountability Project welcome the measures announced by the UK Government on 26 May 2026 to sanction illicit financial infrastructure — including cryptocurrency exchanges and “A7 network” — used to move funds, procure goods, and sustain Russia’s war economy. Through these actions, the UK is explicitly recognizing that this Kremlin-backed

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Freedom for Eurasia Statement On the UN Working Group Petition Concerning Tilekmat Kudaibergen uulu

Freedom for Eurasia supports the petition submitted on 4 May 2026 to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by Freedom Now and Hausfeld LLP concerning Kyrgyzstani civic activist Tilekmat Kudaibergen uulu. The submission raises grave concerns regarding a pattern of transnational repression culminating in his unlawful transfer from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan

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Transnational Repression by Legal Means: Freedom for Eurasia Condemns the SLAPP Against Exiled Kazakh Journalist Natalia Sadykova

Freedom for Eurasia strongly condemns the defamation lawsuit brought by Gadzhi Gadzhiev against Natalia Sadykova before the courts of Ukraine — the country where Sadykova lives in exile and where her husband was assassinated. Natalia Sadykova is a journalist, widow of Aidos Sadykov, and editor of the BASE YouTube channel, one of the most widely-followed

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