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Kyrgyzstan: Reject Proposed Law on 'Extremist' Materials

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police are deployed as people gather in support of a detained journalist, outside the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, January 23, 2022. © 2022 IGOR KOVALENKO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (Berlin, October 2, 2024) – Kyrgyzstan's government has proposed problematic amendments to the criminal code and other legislative acts that would restore criminal charges for the mere possession of materials deemed “extremist,” Human Rights Watch said today. This move threatens to undo crucial progress made in 2019 when authorities decriminalized possession without intent…

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