Today on January 9, 2024, the head of the Karakalpak diaspora in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, Nietbay Urazbayev, has died in a hospital in Almaty. Nietbai Urazbayev is an ethnic Karakalpak and held citizenship of Kazakhstan until 2023 when his Kazakh citizenship was revoked by Kazakh authorities. More on this can be read here. […]
In a concerning development, it has been revealed that the messenger accounts of the Uzbek human rights attorney Sergei Mayorov have been hacked. For years Sergey Mayorov defended high profile cases and represented bloggers, journalists, political opponents and critics of the Uzbek authorities, including the case of blogger Miraziz Bazarov, journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev and civil
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Alarming developments are happening in Kazakhstan involving the denial of asylum cases for Karakalpak activists by the migration department, continuing unfair court decisions that were taken without considering the real threats facing activists in Uzbekistan. This leaves the activists in a precarious situation, with minimal hope for their immediate future. Djaksymbetov Zhangeldi, Yuldasheva Tleubike, Mirmanbetova
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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
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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
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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
