Kyrgyzstan: OSCE rights body, CoE express disappointment at signing of amendments to assembly law

OSCE/CoE, Warsaw/Strasbourg, 27 Aug 2008 – The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)…

Azerbaijan: RFE/RL journalists beaten in Nakhchivan, equipment broken

IRFS, Baku, 27 Aug 2008 – This morning in the village of Nahrem, in Azerbaijan’s Autonomous…

Trial of Tashkent human rights activist starts in Karakalpakstan

Uznews, Nukus, 26 Aug 2008 – The Mangit town court in Karakalpakstan’s Amudarya District today started…

EU to consider Uzbek sanctions in September-October

Uznews, Tashkent, 24 Aug 2008 – The EU will consider sanctions imposed against Uzbekistan for the…

Kyrgyzstan: Chief Editor of Oppositional De-facto Threatened

Ferghana.ru, Bishkek, 22 Aug 2008 – Cholpon Orozbekova, editor-in-chief of the oppositional De-facto newspaper, which is…

Georgia: Open Letter to Vladimir Putin

Georgia Today, Tbilisi, 22 Aug 2008 – Georgia Today provides an open letter of Redjeb Jordania…

Turkmenistan: "Sacred Ruhnama" is lowered in the academic status

Gundogar, Ashgabat, 21 Aug 2008 – Acting at the expanded session of the Cabinet of Ministers…

Tajikistan: Access mode to the official information becomes tougher

NANSMIT, Dushanbe, 21 Aug 2008 – The management of the different ministries and departments of Tajikistan…

Uzbekistan: Case against Samarkand journalists, human rights activists halted

Uznews, Samarkand, 21 Aug 2008 – The Samarkand police have been keeping silent about a case…

Armenia: Sarkisian Orders Probe Into RFE/RL Journalist’s Beating

©RFE/RL, Yerevan, 20 Aug 2008 – President Serzh Sarkisian ordered law-enforcement bodies on Wednesday to promptly…

List of media outlets to carry out free propaganda of presidential candidates in Azerbaijan made public

APA, Baku, 21 Aug 2008 – The list of the media outlets that will carry out…