A year ago, on July 1-3, 2022, in Karakalpakstan, a sovereign republic that is part of Uzbekistan, the Karakalpaks opposed the draft amendment to the Constitution of Uzbekistan. The project assumed the abolition of the sovereign status of Karakalpakstan; it…
The report Pogroms in Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan by ASSEL TUTUMLU and ZULFIYA IMYAROVA Download the report This report is published as part of the project “Nationalism and Violence in Central Asia” funded by the United States Institute of Peace. In February…
CABAR.asia: The trial of Karakalpakstan protesters shows that the Uzbek authorities wanted to create the appearance of justice. Human rights activists argue that the trials were aimed more at creating the image of a democratic country than at actual justice….
Three years ago, on the night of February 7-8, 2020, a large-scale interethnic conflict occurred in Kazakhstan – the pogrom of Dungan villages Masanchi, Sortobe, Bular Batyr, and Aukhatti. An interview with Bolat Omarov, a lawyer who defended the accused…
On Jan. 31, after more than two months of court hearings, the first instance court finally issued a verdict in the Karakalpakstan case, which has 22 defendants. Readers are reminded that this case concerns protests that took place in Nukus on…
The Pamiri peoples living in the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region of Tajikistan have been defending their identity, culture, and the right to speak their languages for decades. Today, years of discrimination have turned into brutal repression. Five stories tell of…
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