Police in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan have arrested and charged seven people on suspicion of organising mass riots to overthrow the government ahead of local elections on Sunday.

Demonstrators marching in Bishkek on October 24 in solidarity with arrested civic activists. (Photo: Danil Usmanov) Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are planning to push through legislation that would enable ...

As the world marks International Human Rights Day, there is little to celebrate in Kyrgyzstan. President Sadyr Japarov’s administration has been systematically cracking down on dissenting voices ...

Kyrgyzstan has not been informed by the United States of possible action against Kyrgyz companies, a senior Kyrgyz official said, after a U.S. paper said Washington was considering such a move to ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament should reject two draft laws currently under discussion that would restrict freedom of speech and the work of the mass media, Human Rights Watch said today.

Attempts in Kyrgyzstan to pass legislation tightening control over NGOs that receive foreign funding have been made in the past. But activists say growing authoritarianism in the Central Asian ...

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Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) confirmed the successful extradition of Raimbek Matraimov and three of his brothers on March 27, noting that Matraimov was being held on ...