A court in Astana sentenced Kazakh opposition activist Asqar Sembai to six years in prison on December 19 for participating in the activities of the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan opposition movement.
Alyaksandra Kasko, a Belarusian rights activist who was arrested in early February right after she returned from Poland, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges related to her protesting the official results of a widely disputed presidential election in 2020.
Wikimedia.ru the nonprofit organization that supports the Russian segment of Wikipedia, announced its dissolution on December 19, after its director Stanislav Kozlovsky was forced to resign from his job at the Moscow State University due to Russian officials' plans to label him a "foreign agent."
In this week’s edition: is the Taliban’s controversial canal leaking water? Plus a Kyrgyz Kurultai turns into a cult fest for President Japarov, oil workers are striking in Western Kazakhstan, and smog returns to Bishkek.
The president of Bosnia’s state court and a former spy chief have been arrested on suspicion of using wiretaps to eavesdrop on state court judges and employees of the Bosnian State prosecutors’ office who worked on certain cases and investigations.