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Human rights
This report provides an analysis of Kazakhstan's implementation of the European Parliament Resolution of 14 March 2019 on the human rights situation in the country (2019/2610(RSP).
Despite the fact that we do not deal directly with issues related to religious freedom, we consider it to be one of the fundamental human rights. That is why we supported activists from non-governmental organisations, associated in the American group called International Religious Freedom (IRF) Roundtable, which sent a letter…
This report examines the cases of 56 victims of politically motivated criminal prosecutions in Kazakhstan. Among them, at least 16 are political prisoners who remain in prisons or pre-trial detention facilities.
Zhanara Akhmetova is a Kazakhstani journalist, one of the leaders of the opposition movement "Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan" (DCK). For several years, Akhmetova and her minor son have been unsuccessfully seeking refugee status and, through this, political asylum in Ukraine.
In case of the extradition of Akhmetova, Ukraine would violate several ratified international conventions. For the new government, this case would become one of the first serious exams in the observation of the rights of refugees and extradition procedures. Will the new authorities of Ukraine pass the test in the…
The Democratic Party of Moldova came to power in the Republic of Moldova for the first time in 2013. Over 6 years, the party and its leader Vladimir Plahotniuc managed to establish control over the key state bodies and to usurp power in the state. On 8 June 2019 a…
On October 1, 2019, at Kazakhstan’s mutual assistance request, Belgian police conducted a warrantless search (sic!) of Kazakh political refugee and lawyer, Botagoz Jardemalie’s apartment in Brussels. The officials seized numerous electronic devices and documents, which included privileged and confidential work relating to her advocacy as a human rights lawyer.…
In the present document, the Open Dialogue Foundation, the Italian Federation for Human Rights, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative, the Human Rights Defenders e.V. and the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research attempt to fill the gaps in the PACE report and propose recommendations with respect to impro
News
- ODF and ‘Themis’ report on the Polish judiciary published by the European Commission
- COVID-19 in closed prisons in the occupied Crimea and Donbas which is under Russia effective control
- Mukhtar Dzhakishev, a Kazakhstani political prisoner and victim of torture, has been released from prison
- Bolat Atabayev needs help
- ODF co-hosts side-event at the 19th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna
- Statement re. event organised by EU Today in the European Parliament on 23 January 2020
- Statement by Ukrainian human rights defenders on the case of Zhanara Akhmetova
- David and Goliath: The hazards of digital disinformation
- Iskander Yerimbetov is free
Publications
- The Open Dialogue Foundation supports the adoption of Australian legislation comparable to the Global Magnitsky Act
- List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons
- Statement by Ukrainian human rights defenders on the case of Zhanara Akhmetova
- Zhanara Akhmetova risks extradition: a test for the new authorities of Ukraine
- Has the state been captured yet again? Corruption and political persecutions in Moldova.
- ODF among signatories of the letter to the President of EC regarding the breach of the rule of law in Poland
- Position of the Open Dialogue Foundation in the case of Judge Dariusz Mazur
- Unprecedented and unacceptable cooperation between Belgian authorities and Kazakhstan’s authoritarian regime
- They’ve Come For You: Misuse of Extradition Procedures and Interstate Legal Assistance
External sources
- COVID-19 in closed prisons in the occupied Crimea and Donbas which is under Russia effective control
- Mukhtar Dzhakishev sentenced to slow death in captivity (STATEMENT)
- Gazeta Prawna: Law and Justice party loses to Kozlovska. Court challenges quality of Internal Security Agency materials
- Affari Internazionali: “Magnitsky Act: towards the international protection of human rights”
- DGP: Has there been power abuse against Kozlovska?
- Ukraine President Zelensky urged to veto populist law on forced castration for ‘paedophiles’
- Human rights defenders appeal to president of Ukraine to veto bill 6449 approved by Verkhovna Rada, July 11
- naTemat: Senator reveals truth of PiS’s support for Russia’s return to the Council of Europe [INTERVIEW]
- OKO.press: Siedlecka’s list – Judges of Freedom. 320 names now. A difficult period begins; glory be to these judges
