Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

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

University administration uses power to limit freedom of speech. Recently, Freedom of Eurasia received a series of videos, likely shot in June 2023, that shed light on some concerning events. The footage shows the meeting between students and a teacher, probably after information about the student’s initiative to organize a peaceful assembly on the anniversary

Freedom of Eurasia received videos of meetings for district state authorities led by Amanbai Orynbaev, who’s in charge of the Supreme Council in Karakalpakstan and joined by representatives of the state security service and akims (heads) of each district. In this video, we’ve seen a message shared by administrative authority and their coercive tactics aimed

According to Karakalpak sources, on September 13, 2023, two Karakalpak activists, the leader of the Karakalpak diaspora in Almaty, Koshkarbay Toremuratov, and the Karakalpak oppositionist, Zhangeldy Zhaksymbetov, were released from the pre-trial detention center in Almaty. Karakalpak activist Raisa Khudaibergenova was released from Almaty pre-trial detention on September 15, 2023. They were detained in Kazakhstan