Article: Interfax Central Asia General Newswire.

Article: Q&A: EFFORTS GROW TO MAKE CENTRAL ASIA ...
Interpress Service;  December 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... long-term prisoners. IPS: Is Central Asia close to becoming "death penalty-free?" Gulnara Kaliakbarova ... political will is there to make Central Asia "death penalty-free." IPS: Central Asia was notorious for the secrecy surrounding ...

Article: Q&A: EFFORTS GROW TO MAKE CENTRAL ASIA ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  December 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... long-term prisoners. IPS: Is Central Asia close to becoming "death penalty-free?" Gulnara Kaliakbarova ... political will is there to make Central Asia "death penalty-free." IPS: Central Asia was notorious for the secrecy surrounding ...

Article: CENTRAL ASIA: ENTIRE REGION PLANS TO OUTLAW ...
Interpress Service;  March 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... executions still occur in Central Asia, but several countries in ... steps toward banning the death penalty. "There's a lot of expectation ... years the region will be death penalty-free." The resource ... Turkmenistan abolished the death penalty in 1999. "We estimate from ...

Article: CENTRAL ASIA: ENTIRE REGION PLANS TO OUTLAW ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... executions still occur in Central Asia, but several countries in ... steps toward banning the death penalty. "There's a lot of expectation ... years the region will be death penalty-free." The resource ... Turkmenistan abolished the death penalty in 1999. "We estimate from ...

Article: EU calls for abolition of death penalty in ...
Times of Central Asia;  October 24, 2008 ;     417 words ... ... complete abolition of the death penalty in Central Asia, Norbert Jousten, the head ... hails the abolition of the death penalty in Kazakhstan," he said ... introduced the moratorium on the death penalty, and in 2007 abolished capital ...

Article: Amnesty International urges Uzbekistan, Belarus to abolish ...
AP Worldstream;  October 4, 2004 ;     427 words ... ... Soviet countries to apply the death penalty and the last obstacles to turning Europe and Central Asia into a death penalty-free zone, Amnesty International ... condemned the secrecy surrounding the death penalty in both countries with prisoners ...

Article: RIGHTS: GROUP REPORTS DEATH PENALTY LOSING FAVOR ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Liberia where the death penalty was reintroduced ... hijacking. Europe and Central Asia are now virtually free of the death penalty, with the exception ... Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia program director ... with which the death penalty was often applied ...