Political prisoners and wrongful detention

Tajikistan has released 8,008 prisoners under a new amnesty law signed by President Emomali Rahmon on June 16, 2026. Jus...

Kazakh Culture and Information Minister Aida Balaeva said satire itself is not illegal but defended the application of A...

Ilyas Kagirmanov, a Chechen national, was detained at an Austrian airport and, activists say, transferred for extraditio...

Tajikistan’s justice minister announced that 8,008 people have been released from prisons under a new amnesty law sign...

The sixth Tutaka festival, held in the Baryk forest in Poland, unfolded under heavy rain and a new paid admission model...

Erlan Qozhagapanov, a former deputy culture and sport minister convicted of abusing official powers and sentenced to thr...

A new compilation of reports and an expert analysis by the Sova team, published via Marsho Radio, documents a pattern of...

Mohammad‑Emin Gatajazev, identified in local reporting as a Galgaychura activist, was detained in Croatia under circum...

A German court has given Tajik activist Asadullo Boboev until July 1 to show he would face persecution if deported to Ta...

A Kiev District court in Russian-controlled Akhmetchet (Simferopol) has extended the pretrial detention of four Muslim w...

Local rights activists report that approximately 15 men from Russia’s Stavropol region have been detained in an invest...

An investigative court in Almaty on June 12 extended the pretrial detention of activist and civic journalist Sanjar Boka...