In his address at the General Debates of this week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev underscored…
Central Asia
Rights campaigners say Chechnya authorities hunting down LGBT escapees
The Russian LGBT Network claims four Chechen-speakers abducted Daghestan native Ibragim Selimkhanov in Moscow in May and took him for…
Kyrgyzstan called to explain women’s protest arrests
Kyrgyzstan’s authorities have been accused of arresting approximately 70 activists – mostly women – last week, according to Human Rights…
Uzbek president moves to end forced cotton labour
Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has signed a decree ending the state-order system for cotton cultivation in a move to end…
Rights group calls for UN action on Uzbekistan
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its national review…
Independent Uzbek told to move out by landowner
Tashkent’s Ilkhom playhouse, which has long been a sanctuary of free speech, experimental theatre and culture within dictatorial Uzbekistan, this…
Kazakhstan’s ethnic-Chinese minority return from Kyrgyzstan after coronavirus-sparked violence
More than 1,000 Kazakh citizens of Chinese descent have crossed the Kyrgyzstan border back into Kazakhstan after initially fleeing communal…
2 Feb 2020
Pompeo: Kazakhs should reject China and Russia cash
30 Jan 2020
Iranian singer and government critic arrested in Turkey
29 Jan 2020
Tajikistan rounds up Muslim Brotherhood suspects
25 Jan 2020
Uzbek television broadcasts controversial Netflix film ‘6 Underground’ to Turkmenistan
14 Jan 2020
Europe defies Trump on Iran sanctions
10 Jan 2020
Russian troops on Turkmen-Afghan border: claim
7 Jan 2020
Russia calls on India to join trade bloc
4 Jan 2020
Kazakhstan to breed Aberdeen Angus herds
11 Dec 2019