🗣️OSCE media freedom Central Asia Media Conference “Actioning Media Viability for Informed and Resilient Societies” 📅 13-14 November 📍Tashkent 🇺🇿 Join important discussions on #MediaFreedom! More information👇 osce.org/representative…

UN experts express "serious concerns about forced evictions" + demolitions in Samarkand, noting recent destruction of an entire neighbourhood. Read more on forced demolitions in my book on #Uzbekistan, Silk Mirage, out on 13 Nov with Bloomsbury Academic ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

On board to Belém with UN Secretary-General António Guterres - united in purpose and resolve as we head to COP30. António Guterres Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 comes with a strong voice for the world’s mountain regions. #COP30 #UN #ClimateAction #Kyrgyzstan #MountainsMatter #Belem2025

Our exclusive interview with Mr Kenneth Roth. Ideally, European gov'ts will be pressuring the Turkish government to abide by the ECHR rulings, they are not doing that [for various reasons] is very short sighted. Erdogan periodically locks up his political challengers: Demirtas and

The C5+1 summit is happpening today in Washington DC, between 5 C Asian presidents and president Trump. Here's @HRW's take on the event: Central Asia-US Summit: Address Region’s Growing Repression hrw.org/news/2025/11/0…

Türkiye: Justice Reforms Central to Fair, Durable Peace. Submission by @HRW and others to national solidarity commission on Kurdish community hrw.org/news/2025/11/0…

Here's @HRW's take on the C5+1 summit hrw.org/news/2025/11/0…

Three presidential family-linked Tajik companies come away from Washington with deals: - Boeing and Somon Air: 14 planes - Transparent Earth & Avesto Group LLC: National Digital Platform to track mineral data. - 6th Grain and Marmari: digital platform for agricultural lands

Turkey preparing law to let PKK fighters return under peace plan - quoting Human Rights Watch Turkey Litigation Support Project & ICJ recommendations on the human rights steps to ensure a durable peace reuters.com/business/media…

Unsurprisingly, it was business as usual: Central Asian presidents sat with their backs to the cameras, while their press services and state media representatives were the only ones allowed into the room at the White House yesterday, when President Trump hosted the region’s

My statement regarding yesterday’s reported FPV-drone attack on the vehicle of an aid organization in the Donetsk oblast of eastern Ukraine, carrying Austrian and Spanish journalists 👇

My exclusive interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. He told me that unlike other western leaders he wasn't "afraid" of Trump and said reports their last Oval Office meeting was stormy were untrue. He revealed King Charles had urged the US president to back #Ukraine theguardian.com/world/2025/nov…

✈️ I have left Kazakhstan and am now safe. My heartfelt Rakhmet to everyone who worried about me and offered their support! Special thanks to the entire team of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights @Bureau_KZ – especially Denis Dzhivaga and Gulmira Kuatbekova.

Kazakhstan: Reject ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Legal Proposals Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/11/1…

Germany-Based Tajik Dies in Custody in Tajikistan Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/11/1…

In Deutschland lebender Tadschike stirbt in Haft in Tadschikistan Human Rights Watch hrw.org/de/news/2025/1…

Excited to be in Bristol for Clifton Lit Fest - in illustrious company!

Tashkent's modernist buildings are being preserved for posterity but Samarkand + Bukhara, jewels in the crown of Uzbekistan's tourist trail, are scarred by destruction of their architectural heritage - read all about it on Substack + in my book Silk Mirage open.substack.com/pub/joannalill…

📕 BOOK OF THE MONTH! Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of the Iwerne Camps by Andrew Graystone Pre order now 👉 dltwritingforyou.com/product-page/b… 'Andrew has exposed an abuse scandal of such horrifying scale that it has shaken the Church of England to its very foundations.

The detention of Humanity 1 is the latest move by Italy to obstruct life-saving work. Requiring rescue ships to obey Libyan Coast Guard orders endangers life & violates the prohibition on sending people where they face serious harm. To learn more: SOS Humanity - SOS HUMANITY