A 2024 Human Rights Watch report released last week describes the five Central Asian republics as an environment under law-breaking and authoritarian governments.
There were no major improvements in the rule of law in any of the Central Asian republics in 2024, HRW, the New York-based international organization, reported. The situation remained grim and, in some cases, worsened in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, according to HRW's annual analysis.
The HRW analysis emphasized that courts are not independent, parliaments are puppets, and presidents are autocrats.
