Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz independent journalists fear surveillance as individuals claiming to be law enforcement question their families and...

After the killing of crime boss Kamchy Kolbaev, Kyrgyz authorities have intensified their crackdown on prominent business...

The Kyrgyz Parliament’s law-enforcement committee approved the first reading of a draft law on Tuesday that would fine or...

Kyrgyz authorities arrested local blogger Azamat Karabayev on Tuesday, just hours after he posted a video exposing how a...

A court in Kyrgyzstan today sentenced two journalists to prison in a case that has sparked international condemnation from...

Amid a crackdown on free expression, journalists from OCCRP’s local partner Temirov Live are confronted with the prospect of...

The fact that Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court has closed down the foundation that ran one of the country’s most influential...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has drastically decreased transparency into public spending, even as he has launched an...

For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...

The Abdukadyr family earned hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to their alliance with corrupt officials in neighboring...

Their trading monopoly, built on bribery and alleged smuggling, was exposed. But that hasn't stopped the secretive Khabibula...

On October 26, Kyrgyz authorities blocked the website of Radio Azattyk, the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio...