ZHANAOZEN, Kazakhstan — Hundreds of residents of Kazakhstan’s restive town of Zhanaozen have rallied for several days to demand jobs after deadly

DUSHANBE — Authorities in Tajikistan have arrested the mother of exiled blogger Sherzod Mamadjonov on an extremism charge that the outspoken

BISHKEK — Adakhan Madumarov, a Kyrgyz parliament member and the leader of opposition Butun (United) Kyrgyzstan party, says a probe has been

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Hundreds of people staged an unsanctioned demonstration in the center of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on February 13

ASHGABAT — A former political prisoner and outspoken critic of Turkmenistan's government has announced he intends to take part in an early

ASHGABAT — Turkmen opposition leaders living in exile have announced their intention to take part in an early presidential election the tightly

NUR-SULTAN — Kazakh opposition leader Zhanbolat Mamai has been placed in pretrial detention on a charge of insulting law enforcement officers and

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Two Kazakh bloggers known for their criticism of Moscow, including Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, have been handed

DUSHANBE — The mother of exiled blogger Sherzod Mamadjonov has been sentenced to six years in prison on an extremism charge that the outspoken

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Lawyers with the newly created Qantar (January) foundation say the government’s investigation into deadly anti-government

DUSHANBE — The family of a prominent activist from Tajikistan’s volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region is demanding a retrial after he was sentenced to

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan — An opposition activist in Kazakhstan's southern city of Shymkent has been sentenced to seven years in prison on terrorism

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Bolat Abilov, a prominent businessman and once an opposition figure in Kazakhstan, has announced a return to politics after

DUSHANBE — Law enforcement authorities in Tajikistan’s volatile Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) on May 16 fired rubber bullets and tear

DUSHANBE — Authorities in Tajikistan have announced the start of what they are calling "an anti-terrorist operation" in the volatile

DUSHANBE — Residents of Tajikistan's restive region of Gorno-Badakhshan, where protesters have clashed with police in recent days, say the death

DUSHANBE — One of the informal leaders of Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) was killed on May 22 in Khorugh, the

DUSHANBE — Tajik journalist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva and her husband, Kholbash Kholbashov, have been shown on state-run television "confessing" to

DUSHANBE — Authorities in Tajikistan say two "criminal leaders" have been killed in the Gorno-Badakhshan region, the latest in a series of

NUR-SULTAN — Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded Kazakh authorities release opposition figure Zhanbolat Mamai, who faces up to 10 years in