A discussion on human rights, European migration policy, and Central Asian dissidents Translation from Russian to English by Freedom For Eurasia. Original can be found pn Vlast.kz Almas Kaisar, Vlast Leila Seiitbek, photo from knews.kg Leila Seiitbek, a human rights defender and activist, fled Kyrgyzstan with her family in 2016, fleeing political persecution by the authorities. […]
Freedom For Eurasia condemns the decision of German authorities to force the 29-year-old Tajik citizen Rahmonov Saidazam to return to Tajikistan whiсh resulted in his violent death at the hands of the Tajik State Committee for National Security and calls for an immediate, independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and death. According to
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Kyrgyzstan has taken a controversial step towards reinstating the death penalty. President Sadyr Japarov has instructed his administration to prepare amendments that would reintroduce capital punishment for crimes against women and children, despite this penalty having been abolished in 2007. The proposed legislation has been published on the portal for public discussion of draft regulatory
On 8 October, the Chairwoman of Freedom for Eurasia delivered a statement on the situation of freedom of expression in Karakalpakstan during the 2025 OSCE ODIHR Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw. The intervention took place at the plenary session dedicated to fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression, freedom of the media, and the safety of
© ICC-CPI. On 17 March 2023, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, in the context of the situation in Ukraine, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
On Wednesday morning, September 24, 2025, 80-year-old Zubaidullohi Rozik, a prominent member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), died in the “Kirpichny” maximum-security correctional colony in Vahdat. Zubaidullohi Rozik was a member of the Political Council and Presidium of the IRPT (banned in Tajikistan since 2015), head of the party’s Science Department, editor-in-chief
