Political Prisoner in Kazakhstan Faces Pressure Ahead of Due Conditional Release (IFN, 11 October 2005)

The IFN calls on Kazakhstan to ensure that Lutfullo Shamsuddinov, recognized by the UN as refugee, is not returned to Uzbekistan (IFN, 6 July 2005)

The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum call on the President of Kazakhstan to ensure that Respublika is permitted to publish (WAN, WEF, 11 May 2005)

New York, May 10, 2005 – CPJ condemns the closure of the leading opposition weekly Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye (Republic Business Review) by The Kazakh Culture, Information, and Sports Ministry. (CPJ, 10 May 2005)

The International Press Institute urges President Nazarbayev to respect the key role played by a free and independent press in democratic progress (IPI, 10 May 2005)

Reporters Without Borders has protested in a letter to the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev against the Kazakh authorities' decision to close opposition weekly Respublika and its sister papers Respublika Delovoe Obozrenie and Respublika Analitichesky Ezhenedelnik. (RSF, 6 May 2005)

The chief editor of Kazakhstan’s main opposition newspaper Respublika, Irina Petrushova, has been detained in Russia on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the request of the Kazakh financial police. (IFN, 24 April 2005)

Nearly 13 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, prospects for democratic reform in Central Asia are disappearing, warned opposition leaders from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan at a recent conference in London. (Mevlut Katik, 14 December 2004)

Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unfolding situation in Ukraine is part of a new wave of democratic fervor sweeping across the former Soviet Union. We should ensure this vibrant movement for democratic change in the region is given a voice. (Dario Thuburn, 9 December 2004)

President Askar Akaev
Republic of Kyrgyzstan
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