A recent investigation by several Kyrgyz media outlets on corruption in the country’s customs service, has led to increased pressure on civil society and media. The investigations have led to large pu...
In a joint letter, Civil Rights Defenders and six other international human rights groups urge Gulbara Kaliyeva, Chairperson of Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court, to ensure wrongfully imprisoned human rights...
In connection to the upcoming EU-Central Asia Ministerial meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 7 July, Civil Rights Defenders and seven other international human rights groups have urged EU High Represen...
In Kyrgyzstan, jailed human rights defender marks 9 years behind bars On Saturday, June 15, Azimjon Askarov, human rights defender from southern Kyrgyzstan, will mark exactly nine years since the day ...
In late August, 25 human rights lawyers gathered in a beautiful and remote area by the shore of the Issyk-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan. They were there to take part in a training on psychosocial security. “...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns consecutive guilty verdicts issued by a Kyrgyz court starting on 30 June in five separate libel cases filed by the Prosecutor-General’s office on behalf of President Al...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Kyrgyz authorities to fulfil their international commitments to protect civil and political rights by immediately releasing human rights defender and journalist Az...
Four years ago, during two media appearances in Berlin and Bishkek, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev publicly announced that he had no interest in keeping an innocent man in jail. The man Atambayev...
Kyrgyzstan has followed the Russian example by introducing a bill to criminalise the distribution of information regarding LGBT issues. The Kyrgyz proposal goes even further than the Russian law in it...
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