22.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Rights Defender Sentenced To One Year In Jail"

Human rights defender sentenced to one year in jail [ID 112396]

22.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Fractured Opposition Considers Uniting"

Fractured opposition considers uniting [ID 112397]

17.12.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Demand for prior approval of RFE/RL programmes called “intolerable”"

RSF deplores the government’s refusal to resume local retransmission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Kyrgyz service unless it submits programmes for prior approval [ID 111809]

16.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Kyrgyzstan Keeps RFE/RL Off Air, Demands Program Review"

Authorities have said that Radio Azattyk, RFE/RL's popular Kyrgyz-language service, will not be restored to the airwaves unless its programs are submitted to the government for prior approval [ID 111444]

16.12.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Bishkek seeks freedom to censor foreign broadcasts"

Authorities will not allow Radio Free Europe to go on air, unless they can censor it; government complaints about critical radio programme follows searches of opposition parties' offices without warrant [ID 111626]

12.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"OSCE Urges Kyrgyzstan To Put RFE/RL, BBC Back On Air"

OSCE urges authorities to restore suspended broadcasts by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and BBC [ID 111262]

12.12.2008 - Source:Institute for War and Peace Reporting 

"Controversy Over Kyrgyz Protest Sentences"

Muslim protestors convicted to up to 20 years in prison; sentences seen as warning to other protestors [ID 111220]

12.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Kyrgyz Rights Activists Concerned About Missing Uzbek Refugee"

Kyrgyz human rights activists concerned about fate of refugee who has not been seen since September; they fear he may have been kidnapped by Uzbek security services [ID 111259]

09.12.2008 - Source:Human Rights Watch 

"Letter to President Bakiev on Ensuring Refugee Rights"

Letter to president Bakiev on the situation of refugees and asylum seekers (disappearances and forced returns to Uzbekistan, torture in Uzbekistan, registration of asylum seekers) [ID 110696]

09.12.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"RFE/RL Radio, TV Broadcasts Taken Off The Air In Kyrgyzstan"

Authorities have confirmed that RFE/RL radio and television broadcasts have been taken off the air [ID 110834]

04.12.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Nationwide protests to bear an Islamic stamp"

Opposition leaders Tursunbai Bakir uulu, of Free Kyrgyzstan, and Nurlan Motuev, of Kyrgyz Patriotic Party, unite to form Kyrgyzstan Muslim Union; they announce nation-wide protests for mid-December [ID 110571]

28.11.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Kyrgyzstan Jails 32 Suspected Islamists"

32 suspected Islamists receive jail sentences of 9 to 20 years for organising a protest; some of them are said to be members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir group [ID 109887]

28.11.2008 - Source:Universität Bremen - Forschungsstelle Osteuropa 

"Zentralasien-Analyse Nr. 11"

Monthly bulletin on political, economic, social and cultural developments in Central Asia (crisis in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan's resign of membership from EURASEC) [ID 109984]

25.11.2008 - Source:Reporters Sans Frontières 

"Officials again rule out Alisher Sayipov’s journalism as motive for his murder"

Officials again rule out Alisher Sayipov’s journalism as motive for his murder [ID 109693]

24.11.2008 - Source:Institute for War and Peace Reporting 

"Kyrgyz Rights “Worse" Than Akaev Era"

According to human rights groups, erosion of civil liberties makes it hard to hold public protests and risky to criticise the authorities [ID 109772]

21.11.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Hospital abuses documented"

According to different reports, people on the margins of society, including persons with physical and mental disabilities, sex workers and drug users routinely face discrimination in hospitals and clinics [ID 109726]

18.11.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Opposition Protests Against Kyrgyz President"

Talas: Group of some 1,500 people demonstrated to demand that president and his government start doing a better job [ID 109419]

18.11.2008 - Source:Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 

"Opposition 'People's Assembly' Opens In Kyrgyzstan"

Talas: Some 500 opposition activists are meeting to discuss the possibility of impeaching the president [ID 109421]

18.11.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Energy crisis threatens country's stability"

After 9 months of energy shortages and broken government promises, people are growing restless; many say situation is worse than before Tulip Revolution in 2005 [ID 109438]

18.11.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"1,500 attend anti-government rally"

1500 people protest against government; in days leading up to event, authorities used violence and intimidation in attempt to foil rally [ID 109439]

17.11.2008 - Source:Institute for War and Peace Reporting 

"Rebels Without Common Cause"

Part of the opposition builds new alliance; opposition at large remains fractured and disunited [ID 109498]

14.11.2008 - Source:Institute for War and Peace Reporting 

"Headscarf Ban Remains Live Issue in Central Asia"

Hijab ban remains prevalent in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan [ID 109468]

12.11.2008 - Source:Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

"a-6431 (ACC-KGZ-6431)"

Russian minority (update to a-5280) [ID 109620]

02.11.2008 - Source:EurasiaNet 

"Journalist’s unsolved murder has silenced criticism of Uzbekistan"

Murder of Journalist Alisher Saipov, an ethnic Uzbek who reported on human rights violations by the Uzbek government, still unresolved  [ID 109097]

31.10.2008 - Source:Universität Bremen - Forschungsstelle Osteuropa 

"Zentralasien-Analysen Nr. 10"

Monthly bulletin on political, economic, social and cultural developments in Central Asia (popular Islam, financial crisis) [ID 108577]