Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

Bektur Asanov, a Kyrgyz opposition politician unlawfully imprisoned as part of the Kempirabad defenders committee has suffered injuries after slipping and falling in the prison shower in pre-trial detention center (SIZO-1) in Bishkek. He suffered serious head injuries and his neck vertebrae were damaged. So far only an MRI scan was done, but it is […]

Nietbai Urazbayev is an ethnic Karakalpak and a citizen of Kazakhstan had his Kazakh citizenship revoked. He is an activist and chairman of the Karakalpak Ethnocultural Association “Allayar Zholu – Aktau,” registered with the Department of Justice of the Mangystau region, Kazakhstan and advocates for the independence of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. Since 2004, he

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