Amnesty calls on the authorities of France in Ablyazov case.

It seems that everyone wants a piece of Mukhtar Ablyazov – former BTA bank chairman, Kazakh opposition figure, criminal suspect, and long-time critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.

Fair Trials International has published a major report on the misuse of INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organisation, to persecute refugees, journalists and peaceful political activists.

The decision by Spain’s high court to extradite an asylum-seeker to Kazakhstan, despite compelling evidence that it would place him at risk of torture, violates international law and must be reversed immediately, Amnesty International said.

Tony Blair’s consultancy business is growing again. He’s started advising Albania, and Vietnam says it is negotiating a consultancy deal with the former British prime minister on development issues.

The Czech Interior Ministry is due this week to decide whether to grant political asylum to Tatiana Paraskevich.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on authorities in the Czech Republic to reject requests to extradite a Russian-Kazakh citizen.

Examples of refusals by European states, denying right of asylum to citizens of the Russian Federation – report by the Open Dialog Foundation.

The guests of the RFI are representatives of the Open Dialog Foundation, based in Poland, which deals with issues relating to human rights in Kazakhstan and, in particular, the case of the Kazakh oligarch and opposition leader, Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is being held in custody in France.

Return to risk of torture in Central Asia. Recommendations.

Amnesty International expresses its utmost concern at the continuous illegal transfers via extraditions, expulsions and deportations of persons from the OSCE region to other OSCE and third-party states, where they face the risk of torture and other forms of degrading or inhuman treatment.

Kazakh authorities are exploiting the legal mechanisms of the International Criminal Police Organisation in order to persecute opponents of the regime.