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 ...

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.

Human Rights Watch joined 6 other nongovernmental groups on June 12, 2023 in urging Kyrgyzstan lawmakers not to pass a law that would stigmatize and restrict the activities of foreign-funded ...

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 ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan said on Sunday nearly 100 people had died in their border conflict, as a fragile ceasefire between the Central Asian nations extended into a second day and their mutual ...

A man sorts through the wreckage of his home in Kapchygai. Farida Japarova, a 56-year-old resident of Maksat, a village on Kyrgyzstan’s fraught border with Tajikistan, barely had enough time to get ...

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 ...

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 Vehicle Reexport Boom Faces Headwinds By RFE/RL staff - Jan 21, 2024, 12:00 PM CST ...