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Belarusian activist Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk has gone on a hunger strike in protest against the unacceptable conditions in the detention center where she is being held in the city of Rechitsa, southeast of Minsk, the Vyasna human rights center said.

A Russian-born Swedish citizen was charged August 28 with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade.

The Bishkek city prosecutor's office has initiated legal proceedings against the Kloop Media Public Foundation to suspend its work in Kyrgyzstan because of its critical coverage of the government.

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Israeli producer Gadi Oron, an organizer of a tour of Russia's Lenkom Theater in Tel Aviv, said that due to protests by Russian-speaking Israelis, Lenkom's performances in Israel had been postponed.

The Kyrgyz media outlet, known for its reporting on corruption, is under pressure once again for publishing materials “aimed at sharply criticizing the policies of the current government.”

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov is trying to tame nationalist forces similar to the ones that led to his rise to power and is using increasingly drastic measures to consolidate his hold over the Central Asian country in the process.

“I would have killed her anyway”. Kloop’s investigation of femicide in Kyrgyzstan Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence against women. In early 2020, several shocking cases of domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan came to light, including some that resulted in the women’s deaths. One such tragic case occurred in the Kochkor district of the Naryn Region, where 36-year-old Ayday died after a beating ( editor’s note: the names of all subjects in...