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Despite the reforms meant to expand civil liberties announced by the president of Kazakhstan, the freedom of speech situation did not become any better in 2020. According to the ‘Adil Soz’ freedom of speech fund, 12 attacks on journalists took place in 2020, and 25 employees of media outlets, bloggers and activists were detained for expressing their views.
The Tajik experts believe that official permission to defer from military service for a fee will only increase corruption and aggravate the lives of conscripts from poor families.
From household tasks to labour rights, the pandemic has aggravated endemic gender inequality. (more…)
Despite the fact that Kyrgyzstan is considered the most liberal country in the region, women’s rights activists find it hard to struggle for women’s right.
Kyrgyzstan will vaccinate its population with vaccines provided free of charge by Russia, China and international donors.
In 2020, 63 criminal cases under article 146 “Torture” of the Criminal Code were registered in Kazakhstan, according to the Legal Statistics and Special Records Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office. Only 11 of them were brought to court.
Landmark deal may finally facilitate pipeline to Europe – if the Europeans are still interested. (more…)
Authorities will have to overcome anti-vaccine sentiment to implement digitised schemes. (more…)
The Tajik court sentenced Doniyor Nabiev, 80, former member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), to seven years of imprisonment. Experts and human rights organisations expressed their concern, considering this sentence as inadequate and tantamount to the death penalty.
Tajik authorities continues to introduce new types of taxes and duties. This is happening despite the year-long reform of the tax code. However, this is only part of the bigger picture, on which an independent researcher, Muslimbek Buriev, elaborates in an article for CABAR.Asia.