Kyrgyzstan News

Kazakh police have detained four suspected human traffickers and freed 16 young women who had been forced into prostitution in Almaty, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

In the latest case of activists being persecuted in Kyrgyzstan, Bakhrom Khamroyev, an activist with the Russian group Memorial, was detained in the southern city of Osh late on Wednesday and deported to Russia.

Number of A/H1N1 patients has risen to 61 in Kyrgyzstan, Zuridin Nurmatov, chief of the sanitary and epidemiological control department under the Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry told the news agency 24.kg.

Possible decision to re-introduce death penalty to damage Kyrgyzstan's international reputation: Human Rights Watch

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Re-introducing the death penalty will not improve security in the country but strongly damage Kyrgyzstan's international reputation and give a further blow to human rights, Andrea Berg, Central Asia Researcher, wrote in an email to Trend News.

Kyrgyz short film Ayan (Touch) by Sadyk Sher-Niyaz awarded the Best Film prize of the international movie festival in Teheran (Iran), the Aitysh film studio informed 24.kg.

At least 40 percent of children in Kyrgyzstan live below the poverty line, Tim Schaffter, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Kyrgyzstan said Thursday at the forum devoted to the 20th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Children in Bishkek, news agency "24.kg" reported.

At least 194 criminal proceedings on illegal child adoption have been launched in Kyrgyzstan, Elmurza Satybaldiev, Prosecutor General of the republic told journalists on Wednesday, news agency "24.kg" reported.

At least two mobile respiratory centers will be opened in Osh and Bishkek, Talant Sooronbaev, President of the Kyrgyz Thoracic Society, Professor told the press conference on Wednesday, news agency "24.kg" reported.

Just like a year ago, when taxes were rised several times, the Kyrgyz government again surprised everyone by skyrocketing the prices for electricity and heating! Starting January 1, 2010, all customers must pay 1.5 som per one kilowatt/hour of electricity, twice more than before .

At least 2,500 million single-use protective masks will be delivered in Kyrgyzstan by the end of November, Rustam Kurmanov, Director General of the Medicines Provision and Medical Equipment Department under the Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry told the press conference at the news agency 24.kg Tuesday.

Kyrgyzstan will mark Kurman Ait on November 27, the Kyrgyz Supreme Mufti, Murataly ajy Jumanov, told the news agency 24.kg on Tuesday.

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic has remitted 43 convicts, including four foreigners - citizens of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia and Mongolia, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Prague Express on-line edition reported.

The explored soils of Kyrgyzstan are appraised at $600 trillion, the first vice prime-minister of Kyrgyzstan, Akylbek Japarov, told reporters on Monday, news agency "24.kg" reported.

Unknown assailants have attacked a son of high-ranking official, hijacking his car and stealing a large amount of money in the Chui region of Kyrgyzstan, press service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry reported.

Dozens of people joined a rally by the nongovernmental organization Birimdik in the Kyrgyz city of Naryn on November 13 to protest the government's decision to increase the price of utilities as of January 1, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

Reforms contain many retrograde steps and look very like an attempt to bolster President Bakiev.

"Kyrgyzstan should develop its distinctive features in order to survive as a nation," President of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiev, said cutting the ribbon at the National Sport complex in Sokuluk region of the Chui oblast this Friday, news agency "24.kg" reported.

"Kyrgyzstan needs up to $1 billion to implement the new energy program," the Kyrgyz Premier, Daniyar Usenov said Friday in Parliament, news agency "24.kg" reported.

The institution of the National Guard was abolished in Kyrgyzstan after the President signed Tuesday a decree on abolishment of the elite unit, established by Askar Akaev to provide security to a state leader, news agency "24.kg" reported.

On November 11 Ata-Meken opposition party disseminated the statement of its leader Omurbek Tekebaev, where he blames Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev in the violation of number of constitutional norms and unlawful seizure of power through the change of constitution, Ferghana.Ru reported.