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HRW says rights situation ‘worsening’ in Central Asia
2 years agoA woman puts a logo of US-based rights group Human Rights Watch on the door as she prepares the room before their press conference to release their annual World report in this Jan 21, 2014 file photo in Berlin. John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images
Human Rights Watch criticised the "worsening" rights situation in Central Asia in a report published this week, saying the region's five ex-Soviet countries had all jailed dissenters and ramped up control on journalists in 2024.
