Karakalpakstan parliament head Musa Yerniyazov dies of COVID-19, as several other top Uzbek officials undergo treatment

Rights defender Azimjan Askarov laid to rest in Uzbekistan

Uzbek antimonopoly committee files charges against UzAuto Motors

Tajik national shot dead by Moscow security services “was planning attack in Gorky Park”, another group of Tajiks arrested on terror charges in Saint Petersburg

UN Human Rights Committee reacts to Azimjan Askarov death

Kazakhstan extends second lockdown for second time

Kazakh health ministry sets out conditions for easing lockdown from 3 August

International human rights organisations join calls for investigation into Azimjan Askarov death

Hospitals converted into pneumonia facilities and busy cemeteries as Turkmen media continues to warn of “harmful dust”

Kyrgyzstan announces drop in COVID-19 infection rate

Central Asian terror suspect shot dead by Russian police

Uzbek lockdown extension date set for 15 August

EU calls for investigation into Azimjan Askarov death

Kyrgyz prison services give their version of Azimjan Askarov’s death

Major disturbances in Kazakhstan as crowd demands mob justice for child abductor

Rights defender Azimjan Askarov dies in jail

Tashkent officials forced into mass apology on live TV amid signs Uzbekistan’s COVID situation worse than portrayed

Uzbek lockdown set to be extended further into August

Russia’s FSB films arrest of more than 20 members of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan to set up low-cost airline together with Russia