All posts tagged Kazakhstan

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Twenty-nine IFEX members have signed a letter to the Prosecutor General about the detention of editor Igor Vinyavsky, whose detention is believed

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Are authoritarians winning the war of ideas in the former Soviet bloc?

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Harassment of Stan TV and the independent news agency Namystan intensified after they covered an unprecedented strike by oil workers in the

Freedom House: Freedom House condemns the decision today by a Kazakhstani appellate court to uphold the guilty verdict against Natalya Sokolova, the lawyer for the trade union

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders notes that the Uzbek authorities have dropped all charges against Elena Bondar , a freelance journalist who was

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International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Adil Soz believes recent Criminal Code amendments serve to diminish some penalties but do not sufficiently address the issue of criminalisation of

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of harassment of news media and journalists critical of a proposed referendum that would allow

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Already denounced in the 2009 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, the often liberticidal legislative activity of certain European Union

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A group of leading democracy advocates today signed an open letter asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The onus is on Kazakh’s government to reach a just conclusion to the case of a prominent human

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A senior OSCE parliamentarian has met with imprisoned human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis at a prison colony in

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Kazakhstan has formally assumed its one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Advocates

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: A prominent Kyrgyz journalist highly critical of the government died on 22 December, days after being thrown out the sixth-story window of