The Osh regional court upheld the decision of the city court to refuse to satisfy the lawyer’s complaint about declaring illegal the refusal of the prosecutor’s office to initiate a criminal case against an underage student of the lyceum. At the end of February 2022, a minor was subjected to torture and ill-treatment by employees […]
In Bishkek, activists staged a rally twice in five days against MP Shailoobek Atazov. On June 10, three townspeople, residents of Sverdlovsk district of the capital, where Shailoobek Atazov ran for Parliament, took part in the action. They went to the Parliament building demanding that he resigns as a deputy. Voters were outraged by his […]
At the parliamentary meeting on May 25, the deputies approved the draft law “On counterintelligence activities” in the third reading. Now the normative-legal act will be sent to the President for signature. The bill was initiated by the Cabinet of Ministers. The justification note to the bill says that its goal is to form the […]
The UN Committee against Torture gave concluding remarks on the Third National Report of Kyrgyzstan. They must be fulfilled by the republic within the next four years. Last November, at the 72nd session of the UN Committee against Torture, Kyrgyzstan submitted the Third Periodic Report on the implementation of obligations under the Convention against Torture. […]
On February 17-18, representatives of the human rights movement “One World (Bir Duino)”, the head of Osh office Khusanbay Saliev and the executive director Aida Baizhumanova took part in a visiting meeting of the working group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to finalize the draft law “On counteracting extremist activity”. For two days, the […]
At a regular meeting of the Parliament, the deputies proposed to adopt a law on foreign agents. This initiative was made by the elected representative of the people Nadira Narmatova. According to her, the bill will concern the activities of non-governmental and non-profit organizations that are financed from abroad. “Until we adopt such a law, […]
The Committee of the Parliament of the republic on International Affairs, Defense, Security and Migration considered amendments to the Law “On National Security bodies”. The initiator of the changes was the State Committee for National Security. In particular, amendments to the current law provide for the possibility of installing wiretapping and hidden video cameras on […]
The human rights movement “One World (Bir Duino)” and the partnership network “People who change the world!” posted an appeal to the President of Kyrgyzstan on their official website. In it, human rights activists point to a number of omissions in the new draft law “On counteracting extremist activity”. The bill, initiated by the Ministry […]
The Independent Union of Journalists of Kyrgyzstan published an appeal addressed to President Sadyr Zhaparov, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Ulukbek Maripov, Minister of Economy and Finance Akylbek Zhaparov, and Minister of Justice Asel Chynnbayeva related to the ongoing inventory of laws regulating the activities of the media and the legal status of journalists. […]
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