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  • Published on Jan 23, 2019

    Fighting for Tajikistan’s Jailed Lawyers

    On January 24, 2019, Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov will have been in prison for 1,215 days for simply doing his job. By Marc Gottridge for The Diplomat January 23, 2019 On September 28, 2015, Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov left his office to meet with …

    Source: The Diplomat - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 7, 2019

    Fearless rights defender's death shocks Tajikistan

    Fayzinisso Vohidova, a prominent Tajik lawyer who was renowned for her preparedness to defend political arrestees and constant criticism of Tajikistan's authoritarian system, passed away on January 4. On Facebook, where open criticism of authorities in …

    Source: Global Voices - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 7, 2019

    ‘Even by leaving us she gave us a lesson': Fearless rights defender's death shocks Tajikistan

    Fayzinisso Vohidova, a prominent Tajik lawyer who was renowned for her preparedness to defend political arrestees and constant criticism of Tajikistan's authoritarian system, passed away on January 4. On Facebook, where open criticism of authorities in …

    Source: Global Voices - Uncategorized
  • Published on May 27, 2017

    Weekly Digest of Central Asia

    BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Central Asia is an important geopolitical area between Europe, Russia and China. It is in Central Asia that world powers have confronted each other for centuries; it is here that China needs to succeed with its new …

    Source: Times of Central Asia - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 26, 2018

    Uzbekistan: Release and Rehabilitate Political Prisoners

    Human Rights Watch, local human rights activists, and former political prisoners in Uzbekistan met with members of the Uzbek government in June 2018, to discuss, among other things, the creation of a special commission on political prisoners with a mandate …

    Source: Human Rights Watch - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 30, 2020

    Ukraine: Draft Law Threatens Trade Union Rights

    (Kyiv) – Ukraine’s parliament is considering draft amendments to the country’s trade union law that, if adopted, would impose serious and unjustified restrictions on workers’ rights to freedom of association, Human Rights Watch said today. They would also …

    Source: Human Rights Watch - Neutral
  • Published on Nov 17, 2018

    Uzbekistan: Release and Rehabilitate Political Prisoners

    (Tashkent) – The Uzbek government has released more than 35 people imprisoned on politically motivated charges, including journalists, human rights defenders, and other activists since President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took office in September 2016, Human …

    Source: Human Rights Watch - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 29, 2018

    EU and Tajikistan hold human rights dialogue

    DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Union and Tajikistan on October 26 held their tenth Human Rights Dialogue in Dushanbe. The meeting allowed for an open and frank exchange of views on the human rights situation in Tajikistan, the Delegation of the European …

    Source: Times of Central Asia - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 26, 2018

    Tajik dissidents attempt to challenge ruling class from Poland

    Warsaw, Poland - To human rights campaigners, Alim Sherzamonov is a civil society activist. But in his native Tajikistan, he is considered an "extremist". Sherzamonov is from Khorog in eastern Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, …

    Source: Al Jazeera - Gov't Propaganda
  • Published on Jul 23, 2020

    Expulsions, pushbacks and extraditions: Turkey’s war on dissent extends to Europe

    Four years ago, a group within the military tried to overthrow the Turkish government. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed Fethullah Gülen and his network, the Gülenists, for the July 15, 2016, failed coup d’état, which resulted in the deaths of 251 …

    Source: PRI - The World - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jul 23, 2020

    'Virtually entire' fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour, say rights groups

    Many of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers are complicit in the forced labour and human rights violations being perpetrated on millions of Uighur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, says a coalition of more than 180 human …

    Source: The Guardian - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 23, 2020

    Canada urged to define Uighur abuses in China as genocide Politico

    OTTAWA — Irwin Cotler, a former Liberal justice minister, is urging Canada’s Parliament to become the first to define China’s “mass atrocities” against the country’s Uighur minority as genocide. The international human rights lawyer made the challenge to …

    Source: Yahoo News - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jan 12, 2017

    Central Asia: Make Improving Rights a Priority

    (Berlin) – Central Asia’s political leaders should focus on urgently needed improvements to basic human rights protections for their populations, as they deal with leadership succession and internal politics, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its …

    Source: Human Rights Watch - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 16, 2020

    HRW slams Canada, Western countries for inaction over citizens jailed in Syria

    Human Rights Watch has criticised Canada and other Western countries for not doing enough to repatriate individuals detained in Syria over alleged links to the Islamic State (IS) group. In an online news conference on Wednesday, Letta Taylor, a senior …

    Source: Middle East Eye - Uncategorized
  • Published on Jul 13, 2020

    Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, ...

    Human Rights Council 13 July 2020 Hears the Presentation of Reports Submitted under Agenda Items 3 and 6 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. It heard …

    Source: ReliefWeb - Neutral
  • Published on Aug 24, 2018

    Prominent rights lawyer walks free in Tajikistan

    DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Tajikistan on Friday (Aug 24) freed a prominent human rights lawyer as Western governments and rights groups stepped up pressure on the authoritarian Central Asian country. Shukhrat Kudratov, a renowned rights lawyer involved in …

    Source: Channel News Asia - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Aug 8, 2018

    Tajikistan: Allow 10-Year-Old to Reunite with Mother

    (Berlin, August 7, 2018) – Tajik security services forced an activist’s 10-year-old daughter, elderly mother, and brother off an airplane at Tajikistan on August 4, 2018, seven human rights groups said today. They were on their way to Europe to reunite …

    Source: Human Rights Watch - Neutral
  • Published on Jul 2, 2020

    How Extremist Groups Are Reacting to COVID-19

    In Nigeria, Boko Haram’s leader has called it part of the “global war” against Islam. In Iraq and Syria, Islamic State leaders say it’s punishment for “crusaders,” at the same time Iran-backed Shiite militias hand out public health information and free …

    Source: Voice of America - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jul 1, 2020

    Atrocity Alert No. 210: China, Myanmar (Burma) and UN Human Rights Council

    Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. CAMPAIGN TO FORCIBLY REDUCE UIGHUR BIRTHS MAY AMOUNT TO GENOCIDE …

    Source: ReliefWeb - Neutral
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