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Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
People owning videos, pamphlets or books that have been banned using an over-broad definition of extremism face lengthy jail sentences - regardless of how the outlawed material was used.
Kyrgyzstan Highlights
While Kyrgyzstan has generally been a rare positive example in a region where autocracy has been the rule, recent developments threaten to send the country down a similarly repressive path.
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
Prosecutions, astronomic fines and travel bans are worsening the free expression environment in a state where it is already vulnerable.
Kyrgyzstan
Campaigning journalist and human rights advocate Azimjon Askarov is Kyrgyzstan's most famous prisoner.
Reporters Without Borders
Digital Rights
Censorship
Kyrgyzstan
14 June 2017
Committee to Protect Journalists
Attacks
Kyrgyzstan
4 June 2017
Cathal Sheerin for IFEX
Access to Information
Russia
Attacks
Censorship
Kyrgyzstan
Gender
2 March 2017
Human Rights Watch
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
25 January 2017
Committee to Protect Journalists
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
9 January 2017
Human Rights Watch
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
31 March 2016
PEN International
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
29 June 2015
Freedom House
Attacks
Freedom of Assembly
Kyrgyzstan
19 May 2015
Human Rights Watch
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
5 March 2015
Freedom House
Freedom House
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
20 October 2014
PEN International
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
16 October 2014
Human Rights Watch
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
4 June 2014
Reporters Without Borders
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
28 April 2014
Human Rights Watch
Access to Information
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
2 April 2014
Human Rights Watch
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
13 December 2013
Human Rights Watch
Attacks
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
16 September 2013
Human Rights Watch
Attacks
Kyrgyzstan
16 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Censorship
Kyrgyzstan
3 April 2013
Human Rights Watch
Germany
Free Expression & the Law
Kyrgyzstan
11 December 2012
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
Digital Rights
Censorship
Kyrgyzstan
23 February 2012
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
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