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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...