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.

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.

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 ...

Now, there are fear that the authorities' latest effort to force through a Russian-style "foreign agents" law could succeed, with observers citing growing authoritarianism in Kyrgyzstan and ...