Human Rights
Friday, December 12, 2014 - 07:07
Aman Sagidullaev fled Uzbekistan with his family in the summer of 2011. He had called for a referendum on independence for his native Karakalpakstan region in the country’s northwest. Apparently in response, Uzbek prosecutors charged him with embezzlement. After traveling to Russia, then to Kazakhstan, Sagidullaev has spent the last two years trying to obtain asylum in Kyrgyzstan.
Friday, December 12, 2014 - 06:17
Suspected war criminals in Central African Republic are carrying out atrocities and terrorizing people, and the United Nations and CAR government must try harder to bring them to justice, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:55
"This was an opportunity to underscore that the United States has and will continue to support Uzbekistan, and a leadership that Uzbekistan has provided in the region, because a strong, independent, and vibrant Uzbekistan will not only strengthen [the] security and prosperity of the Uzbek people, it will also enhance the stability and the security of the broader Central Asian region, and the security and prosperity of the American people."
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:36
About 50 protesters have demonstrated outside Azerbaijan's embassy in Tbilisi, demanding that Azerbaijan's government release Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and contributor to RFE/RL.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:52
A Bahraini court sentenced pro-democracy activist Zainab al-Khawaja to 16 months in jail on Tuesday for insulting a government employee and damaging public property, her lawyer said.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:33
A well-known Azerbaijani lawyer says he could be disbarred for defending prominent human rights activists and oppositionists.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:33
A Kazakh court has rejected a protest by relatives of a murdered opposition leader against the early release of an organizer of the murder.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:29
A lawyer for Leyla Yunus says the jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist can barely walk and has trouble breathing. After meeting Yunus at a pretrial detention facility on December 9, lawyer Ramiz Mammadov told RFE/RL that "it took her 30 minutes to walk the 50-meter corridor."
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:25
President Barack Obama's National Security Council (NSC) has voiced concern over Gambia's moves to block access to top United Nations human rights investigators and enact tough new legislation against homosexuality.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 06:23
Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, officers from four units of Kenya's counter-terrorism apparatus admitted the police assassinate suspects on the government's orders.