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- December 23rd, 2024
On 28 October, the Supreme Court restored the three-year jail term for 36-year-old Muslim prisoner of conscience Asadullo Madraimov which a lower court had earlier halved. He has been jailed since October 2023 for criticising...
On 2 December, a Bishkek court rejected a General Prosecutor's Office suit to ban Jehovah's Witness books and videos as "extremist", saying it had been filed under the wrong procedure. The General Prosecutor's Office official...
The UN Human Rights Committee has again found that the authorities violated the rights of Jehovah's Witnesses by arbitrarily refusing their communities in Naryn, Osh and Jalal-Abad state registration. The State Commission for Religious Affairs...
Unexpectedly, on December 2 the Pervomayskiy District Court of the City of Bishkek rejected the prosecutor’s application, based on Russian precedents. On December 2, 2021, a significant victory for religious liberty was scored in Kyrgyzstan....
KADAMJAY, Kyrgyzstan—On December 14, 2011, the chief investigator of the Kadamjay region, together with the regional prosecutor, terminated criminal proceedings against two of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 18-year-old Iskandar Kambarov and 22-year-old Jonibek Nosirov. Several weeks earlier,...