With only 0.5 megabits per second (Mbps), Turkmenistan is the country with the lowest Internet speed in the world.
TASHKENT -- Uzbek police outside the capital have forced dozens of practicing Muslims to shave off their beards, a practice that has been criticized by domestic and international rights organization for years.
A sex video recorded by police that purports to show an outspoken Tashkent female politician has been leaked to social media. The politician says it's an attempt to punish her for criticizing officials -- and people are rallying around her.
Uzbekistan's State Security Service (DXX) and its Interior Ministry have detained a group of alleged members of a banned Islamic group in the Tashkent region.
A high-level EU delegation has held talks in the Tajik capital with foreign ministers from Central Asia to discuss issues such as regional cooperation, human rights, and the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. Turkmenistan was represented by a deputy foreign minister.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on the European Union to press Central Asian governments to end rights violations and engage in meaningful reform at a time when the crisis in Afghanistan is high on the agenda following the Taliban takeover of the war-torn country in mid-August.
Taliban control of Afghanistan has created a security concern for governments in Central Asia as some of their citizens are in militant groups in Afghanistan and they fear it will prompt others to call for jihad at home. Uzbek authorities are working to ensure that does not happen.
Central Asians from western Kazakhstan to southern Tajikistan are suffering from power and energy shortages that have caused hardship and emergency situations affecting the lives of millions of people.
The Uzbek president has dismissed his advisor on law enforcement, the once influential former chief of the National Security Service, Rustam Inoyatov.
On this week's Majlis podcast, Muhammad Tahir, moderates a discussion on the signs of climate change in Central Asia and what the governments of the region are doing in response.
An independent Polish journalist who earlier this year accused an Uzbek Foreign Ministry official of sexual harassment and pressuring her to write positive articles about the country, says she has been banned from entering the Central Asian state for unspecified reasons.
Central Asian countries continue efforts to reintegrate into society hundreds of Islamic State fighters' family members repatriated from Syria and Iraq. But the rehabilitation of the women and children traumatized by war is a challenging process that will likely take many years.
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