Central Asia & Caucasus Data

Prisoner of conscience Fariduddin Abduvokhidov was serving an 11-year jail term handed down in 2020. His "crime" was meeting with others in his home city of Tashkent to discuss Islam. In December 2023, a Tashkent Region court handed down a further 10-year term. His new "crime" was to be three minutes late for a prison roll call. On 17 March 2025, after seven hearings, Navoi City Court handed down a further 10-year prison

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Ukraine's immediate declaration of martial law, alternative civilian service has not been available to conscientious objectors in Ukraine. Many conscientious objectors – both on religious and non-religious grounds - have been detained and forced to join the army, held illegally (often for months) on military bases, or criminally prosecuted

The Crocus City massacre, in which145 died, is a model for attacks envisaged by Kiev, Sergey Shoigu has saidUkrainian military intelligence is enlisting migrants and others in Russia and equipping them to carry out high-profile attacks, Sergey Shoigu, secretary of Russia's National Security Council has said.The former defense minister cited atrocities such as the deadly assault at the Mar

KABUL, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan interim government's Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development has launched 69 essential development projects worth more than 969,000 U.S. dollars in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, the ministry said in a statement late Thursday. The projects, which include building bridges, culverts, protective walls, check dams, rural roads, and irrigation canals, would be