Author name: Freedom for Eurasia

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

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