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01Overview
Quick Facts
CountryKyrgyzstan
Age / Sexmale
OccupationHuman rights defender
Arrested in—
Held at—
CategoryOther
Statusunknown
Sentence—
Case Summary
An ethnic Uzbek human rights defender who documented police violence. He was arrested on trumped-up charges and sentenced to life in prison despite UN protests.
Native-Language SummaryRU • Original
An ethnic Uzbek human rights defender who documented police violence. He was arrested on trumped-up charges and sentenced to life in prison despite UN protests.
02Charges
Charges
01 count- 01complicity in murder
03Analysis
Surveillance vector
Surveillance vectorUnknown
04Sources
Data Source
Source vs. PPW analysis
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Political Prisoner Watch. (2026). Case file: Azimzhan Askarov (PPW case cmply192). Retrieved June 2, 2026, from https://politicalprisonerwatch.org/prisoners/cmply1928000d1vi63eoahq6u. Original data from nhc.no (https://www.nhc.no/en/thousands-of-political-prisoners-in-central-asia-progress-and-regress/#azimzhan-askarov).
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