Tag: human rights

Ethnic Uyghur Muslims in Turkey are calling for a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which opened today (Friday), although…

As Central Asia’s largest economy prepares to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its independence next week, Kazakhstan has reflected on…

Uzbekistan appears to have given President Shavkat Mirziyoyev a second five-year term as a weak opposition failed to challenge the…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its national review…

Russia standup comic Aleksandr Dolgopolov, 25, (pictured) fled for Israel in January after his jokes about Christianity and President Vladimir…

Russia’s use of facial-recognition technology is being challenged by an activist in court. Alyona Popova says the cameras pose a…

Iranian singer Amir Tataloo, who has a large following on social media and is an outspoken critic of the regime…

The leaders of Germany, France and Britain have backed the 2015 Iran nuclear pact, defying an order from Donald Trump…

Migrant camps in Greece are facing “catastrophe” and an “explosion”, according to a European-wide human rights envoy.  Greece is again…

A legal challenge over cotton imports from Uzbekistan could stop slave-made goods entering the European Union. The legal action says…

Two Russian suspects accused of co-founding an anarchist group to overthrow the government of President Vladimir Putin have cut their…

Russian has labelled the organisation run by opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a “foreign agent”.  Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which…

A Russian court has ordered the release of an actor whose prison sentence for dislocating a security officer’s shoulder at…

A former US marine suspected of espionage in Russia has held up a sign inside his defendants’ cage saying “kangaroo court”….

Uzbekistan’s notorious Jaslyk prison, where thousands of alleged Islamists and opposition figures were held after government trials based on torture-induced…