Authorities in Kyrgyzstan should drop two separate bills that propose imposing undue restrictions on the country’s embattled civil society organizations, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Civil Rig...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns today’s decision by the Bishkek City Court that ordered to deport Bolot Temirov, an investigative journalist, from the country. In a video shared by Kloop News, Temirov...
On Sunday in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, police agents raided the houses of more than a dozen government critics who one day earlier formed a committee to protest against the transfer of the Kyrgyzs...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) and Civil Rights Defenders condemn the spate of criminal char...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to drop their criminal case against the independent broadcaster Next TV, free media director Taalai Duishembiyev, and stop harassing staff report...
On 9 August, the Uzbekistani journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was arrested in Bishkek by officials of the State Committee for State Security of Kyrgyzstan. Civil Rights Defenders, together with several...
Civil Rights Defenders mourns the passing of prominent human rights defender and journalist Azimjon Askarov and expresses its sincere condolences to his family at this difficult time. At 8...
In Kyrgyzstan, human rights defender Kamil Ruziev is facing forgery charges that appear to have been brought in retaliation for his human rights work. Civil Rights Defenders, together with four other ...
Monday 15 June marks ten years since human rights defender and journalist Azimjon Askarov’s arbitrary arrest in southern Kyrgyzstan. Since then, Askarov, now 69 years old, has suffered a decade of int...
Today’s decision by Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court to leave human rights defender Azimjon Askarov in jail is a stain on the government’s human rights record. Civil Rights Defenders urges...
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