The Ferghana Valley has been the most restive area in Central Asia since the five Central Asian states became independent after the collapse of the Soviet ...

Reacting to the detention of prominent Kyrgyzstani human rights defender Rita Karasartova, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The detention ...

Kyrgyz authorities on April 14, 2025, detained a human rights defender, claiming she has ties to a criminal case, Human Rights Watch said today. The activist, Rita Karasartova, was detained for 48 ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan are banned from wearing niqabs as the country claims they could be “attackers in disguise”. The Muslim ...

Kyrgyzstan banned full-body niqabs, citing security and cultural reasons. The official Muslim body-backed law argues that the ...

Kyrgyzstan enforces fines on women wearing the niqab, with support from its top Islamic authority, citing it as a foreign ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will be fined for wearing a full-body niqab under a new plan that is supported by the country's official ...

More than 80 government representatives and members of various religious communities gathered in Ataturk Park to plant over 60 tree seedlings, aiming ...

The UAE on Wednesday welcomed the agreement reached between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to establish a tri-national border connection point, as well as the signing of the Khujand ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 2. A telephone conversation took place between the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Murat Nurtleu, and the Minister of ...

(Feb. 6, 2019) -- Do children raised by religious parents have better social and psychological development than those raised in non-religious homes? In a new study, UTSA researchers found that ...

In less than two weeks, the country came together and collected over KGS 510 million (USD 5.9 million), displaying ...