News Digest
TAJIK WOMEN SAY HUSBANDS, SONS ENDURE TORTURE
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The wives and mothers of suspected Hizb ut-Tahrir members in custody told a 26 May news conference that their husbands and children are being tortured. The NGO Fourth Power organized the news conference in Khujand, where 14 suspected Hizb ut-Tahrir members were arrested on 9 February. Parvona Firuz of Fourth Power told Asia-Plus, \"The suspects\' mothers said that the detainees had been tortured, beaten, and humiliated during the first months their detention in order to force them to plead guilty.KAZAKH PRESIDENT CALLS FOR SPEEDIER INTEGRATION
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President Nursultan Nazarbaev said on 27 May that the states of the Eurasian Economic Community (EES) must hasten their efforts to harmonize national legislation in order to aid overall integration. The remarks came at a meeting with the head of parliamentary delegations from the EES states (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan). Nazarbaev said, \"Our task is to harmonize national laws and bring them closer together.DRUG CONTROL AGENCY OPENS IN KYRGYZ CAPITAL
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The Drug Control Agency was opened in Bishkek on 26 May in a ceremony attended by Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Antonio Maria Costa, and U.S. Ambassador Stephen Young.TWO ARMENIAN OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS RELEASED, ONE SENTENCED
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Two senior Artarutiun members who were taken into custody following the violent dispersal by police early on 13 April of participants in a peaceful rally calling for the resignation of President Robert Kocharian were released late on 25 May, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported the following day. Aramazd Zakarian and Zhora Sapeyan, both members of the Hanrapetutiun party, admitted to having \"publicly insulted\" senior government officials. Also on 25 May, a local court sentenced 24-year-old Edgar Arakelian to 18 months\' imprisonment for having thrown a plastic bottle at a police officer during the clash between demonstrators and police on 13 April.Visit also
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