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8 March 2019 KYRGYZSTAN: Fighting against violent extremism? |
12 November 2018 KYRGYZSTAN: "The attackers are in freedom" |
1 February 2018 KYRGYZSTAN: Burial blocked with violence "resolved peacefully"? |
| An imam admitted to Forum 18 he had, accompanied by a "mob" of young men and officials, blocked a Christian's burial in the state-owned cemetery in Barskoon in Issyk-Kul Region. He then denied all responsibility and tried to blame everything on villagers. |
24 January 2018 KYRGYZSTAN: Church arson follows long-standing government failures |
| On 2 January the Baptist Church in the north-eastern town of Kaji-Sai was burnt down. Baptists think this happened because nothing was done to punish the perpetrators of previous threats and attacks. Police claim to be trying to solve the crime, but are also investigating the victims. |
31 May 2017 KYRGYZSTAN: Religious censorship, sharing faiths ban? |
| All religious literature would be subject to censorship, sharing beliefs would be banned, adults wanting to study faith abroad would have to notify Religious Affairs officials, and 500 adult citizens in one location would be required to apply for registration if parliament adopts Religion Law amendments. |
22 March 2017 KYRGYZSTAN: Impunity for body snatching officials |
| Out of around 70 people in mobs incited by officials who twice exhumed a deceased Protestant's body in Kyrgyzstan, only four were given suspended sentences. None were given the jail sentences of between three and five years the law requires. No officials were tried. |
20 January 2017 KYRGYZSTAN: No effective punishment for body snatching |
| Only three people prosecuted from 70, including imams and officials, who twice dug up a deceased Protestant's body. The two convicted were not given the jail sentences the law requires. Human rights defenders and the family condemned the punishments as "not appropriate and not effective". |
15 December 2016 KYRGYZSTAN: No grave, no prosecutions over twice-exhumed Christian |
| The authorities have failed to prosecute those who in October led mobs who twice dug up the body of deceased Protestant Kanygul Satybaldiyeva and officials who allowed this to happen. Officials still will not tell Satybaldiyeva's daughter what they did with her mother's body. |
11 November 2016 KYRGYZSTAN: State permission to exist still denied |
| Kyrgyzstan continues to deny all belief communities permission to exist without state control, Protestants stating they "live and exercise freedom of religion and belief with constant fear." Officials refuse to explain why officials' torture of Jehovah's Witnesses meeting for worship is not seriously investigated. |
20 October 2016 KYRGYZSTAN: Mobs twice exhume body – with impunity? |
| Mobs in two villages dug up the body of deceased Protestant Kanygul Satybaldiyeva, insisting non-Muslims cannot be buried in village cemeteries. Police, secret police and officials observed the exhumations but did not stop them. Officials took Satybaldiyeva's body and claim to have buried it elsewhere. |