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More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest of their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on organized criminal gangs who resent attempts to break the power they wield in prisons.
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister said Friday he will step aside and hand duties over to his deputy in order to run in the Central Asian nation's Oct. 30 presidential election.
International advocacy groups condemned the life sentence handed to a leading rights activist in Kyrgyzstan, saying Thursday that his trial was marred by violence and procedural irregularities.
The United Nations says it has received reports of torture and other atrocities by Kyrgyzstan forces against ethnic Uzbeks in the Central Asian nation.
Kyrgyzstan's fragile interim government suffered its first major defection Monday as the acting president's chief of staff announced his resignation and disclosed plans to create a new political party.
Allies of deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev may fund public disturbances in a bid to destabilize this turbulent Central Asian nation, the acting head of the security services said Thursday.
On the anniversary of the uprising that toppled this former Soviet republic's hardline leader, the same revolutionaries who came to power promising a new era of freedom announced they have given up on Western-style democracy.
Kyrgyzstan's president said Tuesday that Western-style democracy has run its course in the ex-Soviet Central Asian country, prompting fears of a further decline in political freedoms.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Kyrgyzstan's capital Wednesday to protest recent sharp increases in heating and electricity tariffs and alleged oppression of government opponents.
Kyrgyzstan's parliament overwhelmingly backed measures Thursday to broaden the president's powers and drastically streamline the government.
Russia clinched a tentative deal Saturday allowing it to establish a second military base in Kyrgyzstan, where the United States also has an important air base.
Police broke up opposition rallies protesting the outcome of Kyrgyzstan's recent presidential election on Wednesday, detaining dozens of demonstrators.
Kyrgyzstan said Thursday that a new deal allowing the U.S. to continue using a Kyrgyz air base to ship military supplies to Afghanistan was meant to support the fight against terrorism.
A Kyrgyz official says the United States and Kyrgyzstan have reached a deal for use of the Kyrgyz airport to transport U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan.
A documentary on Russian state television has accused the U.S. of using an air base in Kyrgyzstan to spy on Russia and China — an allegation a spokesman for the base flatly denied on Monday.
Opposition parties on Monday called for protests across Kyrgyzstan this month, amid worsening economic conditions and mounting accusations of government repression.
Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan charged a prominent opposition leader with murder Wednesday in a case that government critics say is politically motivated.
A reporter and vocal government critic in Kyrgyzstan was stabbed and beaten in an attack that opposition parties described Wednesday as an attempt to stamp out freedom of expression.
The United States was on the verge of being kicked out of its only military outpost in Russia's historic backyard after Kyrgyzstan Friday gave U.S. forces six months to vacate an air base that serves as a key supply hub for troops in Afghanistan.
Rescuers in Kyrgyzstan searched the rubble for signs of life after an earthquake that killed at least 74 people.
Opposition parties said Friday that the former head of Kyrgyzstan's election commission has fled the country after receiving death threats from the president's son in a dispute over upcoming elections.
More than 20,000 people paid their final respects Saturday to Chingiz Aitmatov, an author and statesman who helped introduce his Central Asian nation to the world.
Not long ago, she was a wife, mother and teacher. Now Dilfuza Mustafakulova is HIV-positive and has lost her husband and her job. Mustafakulova's baby son was among 72 children infected with the virus at two Kyrgyz hospitals. Sixteen mothers also have contracted it — in some cases by breast-feeding their children.
Parliament held its first session Friday as police arrested several people protesting an election that strengthened Kyrgyzstan's president but opened the door for further turmoil.
The parties that support Kyrgyzstan's president swept the parliamentary elections, according to final results released Thursday, excluding the opposition from power and raising the risk of political clashes.
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