Kazakhstan: Eight Muslim Prisoners of Conscience Sentenced
On 7 April, at the end of a closed trial, a court in the north-eastern city of Pavlodar sentenced Sunni Muslim Kuanysh Bashpayev to four...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Jun 16, 2017
UN Secretary-General Fails to Speak Up for Rights in Central Asia
By Hugh Williamson United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres shakes hands with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev during their...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 15, 2017
UN Leader Should Feature Rights on Regional Visit
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ trip to Central Asia, beginning June 8, 2017, is a major opportunity for the UN to...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 7, 2017
Tracking Conflict Worldwide - May 2017
Global Overview MAY 2017 May saw a new escalation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while in Libya deadly fighting in the south and in...
International Crisis Group 1
May 31, 2017
Attacks on Gay Men in Chechnya: The Kremlin's Role in These and Other Human Rights Abuses
Police in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, are rounding up men believed to be gay, beating and humiliating them. HRW’s Russia...
Human Rights Watch
May 9, 2017
Holocaust museum condemns 'torture and killing of gay men' in Chechnya
Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of Chechnya REUTERS The Chechen and Russian governments must investigate claims of persecution of gay men...
The Independent
Apr 28, 2017
RUSSIA: Wave of violence against Jehovah’s Witnesses
Interview with Yaroslav Sivulsky, member of governing body of the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia Portal-Credo.ru...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Apr 25, 2017
‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence
A small stream flowing into the Dudan cave in Turkey. It was here that the Armenian residents of a local village are said to have been...
Genocide Watch
Apr 22, 2017
They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
By Andrew E. Kramer Ilya and Nohcho, gay men from Chechnya, sought refuge at a house outside the Caucasus region in southern Russia. Both...
New York Times 1
Apr 21, 2017
Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses, Calling It an Extremist Group
MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Battle Over 2 Films Reflects Turkey’s Quest to Control a Bitter History
By Cara Buckley If history was any guide, the director Terry George figured there’d be weirdness around his new film, “The Promise,”...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Haley: Anti-gay abuses in Chechnya ‘cannot be ignored’
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says America will not ignore reports that authorities in the Russian republic of...
The Hill
Apr 17, 2017
