Together A Lifetime, Azeri Activists Now Apart And In Jail
Copyright show: Hide copyrights Leyla and Arif Yunus met as young history students in the late 1970s, at a party hosted by one of their professors at Baku State University.As the evening drew to a...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Reports Opens Window On Torture
Copyright show: No It’s no secret that Turkmenistan, a modern-day hermit khanate with one of the most repressive governments on earth, has an abundance of political prisoners. But until now, few...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Call for EU Sanctions Raises Activist-Hopes
Copyright show: No The United States and European Union appear to be taking a stronger stance against Azerbaijan over Baku's poor rights record. Recent US and EU criticism is bolstering the resolve of...
View ArticlePACE Awards Annual Havel Prize To Azerbaijani Activist
Copyright show: Hide copyrights The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has awarded its annual Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize to jailed Azerbaijani human rights activist Anar...
View ArticleCrimean Tatars Complain Of Campaign Of Harassment, Intimidation
Copyright show: Hide copyrights On an autumn evening on a highway between Simferopol and Belogorsk, a white van pulled up next to two young Crimean Tatar men who were walking on the street. Several...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Criminal Probe Has Rights Activists on Alert
Copyright show: No Civil society activists in Kyrgyzstan are warily eyeing a criminal case initiated by the state security service against a local non-governmental organization in the southern capital...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Rights Activists on the Brink
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary When Azerbaijan served as chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, it scoffed at the spirit and purpose of the organization and moved...
View ArticleAzerbaijan and the EU: Bogged Down in Acrimony
Copyright show: No EurasiaNet Commentary Relations between the European Union and Azerbaijan are taking a nose-dive, highlighting a gap in expectations. read more
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Leading Investigative Reporter Detained
Copyright show: No Authorities in Azerbaijan took steps December 5 to muzzle Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist who is the country’s most vocal government critic. A Baku court granted a...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Uzbeks Shedding Ethnic Identity
Copyright show: No It has been over four years since ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan’s southern provinces caused widespread death and destruction, and the wounds are still raw.read more
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