This report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is based on over 200 interviews with Kyrgyz and Uzbek victims and witnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders, and community activists, as well as local government officials, law enforcement and military personnel, and military and civilian prosecutors. The report recreates the chronology of the June 2010 violence, and analyzes the role of the Kyrgyz security forces in the events. HRW states that under the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, governments have a responsibility to ensure that lawyers “are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference” and that when “the security of lawyers is threatened as a result of discharging their functions” the authorities should provide adequate safeguards.
This report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is based on over 200 interviews with Kyrgyz and Uzbek victims and witnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders, and community activists, as well as local government officials, law enforcement and military personnel, and military and civilian prosecutors. The report recreates the chronology of the June 2010 violence, and analyzes the role of the Kyrgyz security forces in the events. HRW states that under the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, governments have a responsibility to ensure that lawyers “are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference” and that when “the security of lawyers is threatened as a result of discharging their functions” the authorities should provide adequate safeguards.
