Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Wednesday condemned Kyrgyzstan’s dissolution of its National Center for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT), warning that the country’s new legislation ...

(Bishkek) – The trial of a Kyrgyz human rights defender who published a letter from a political activist on her Facebook page is scheduled to start on August 15, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.