Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

We received credible information from Dauletmurat Tadzhimuratov’s lawyer, Sergey Mayorov, that the Uzbek authorities created intolerable conditions of detention for Tajimuratov, sentenced to 16 years in prison for his rights work for Karakalpak minority in Uzbekistan. On November 28, 2023, the lawyer visited Dauletmurat in prison in the city of Navoi. The regime of detention […]

On November 22, 2023 a well-known human rights activist Tajigul Begmedova, who heads the Turkmen Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Bulgaria, was deported from Istanbul, Türkiye to Varna, Bulgaria. Turkish authorities cite “threat to national security” as the basis for the entry ban. On November 21, 2023 Begmedova flew to Istanbul, from where a few

On 9 of November 2023, political prisoner Zhumasapar Dadebaev, sentenced in Uzbekistan to 12 years for supporting the ideas of Karakalpakstan’s sovereignty on the Internet, called his Tashkent based lawyer Sergei Mayorov from the colony. Mayorov represented his interests in the appellate court. Dadebaev said that he “felt better,” and his treatment by the administration is

Lawyer Sergei Mayorov sent an appeal to the Ombudswoman of Uzbekistan Feruza Eshmatova from the imprisoned leader of the 2022 Karakalpak protests, Dauletmurat Tajimuratov. This is the first documentary evidence in which a Karakalpak dissident talks about the conditions of his detention in penal colony No. 11 in Navoi. The document has the subtitle “Zhaslyk was

On September 29, 2023, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon met with President of  Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin. The official event took place against the backdrop of protest rallies organized by representatives of the Tajik opposition and civil society activists. The rallies took place on September 28 and 29, 2023. As the participants of the

28. September 2023 Eight months after deportation from Dortmund Joint report from Freeedom for Eurasia and the Abschiebungsreporting NRW [Cologne/Vienna] On the occasion of the visit of the five Central Asian presidents, including Tajik President Rahmon, to Berlin this Friday, the Abschiebungsreporting NRW and the Viennese human rights organization “Freedom for Eurasia” draw attention to