Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Kyrgyzstan: Abusive Crackdowns on 'Extremist' Material

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Expand Counterterrorism police carry out a search in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on October 16, 2015. © 2016 Ulan Asanaliev/RFE/RL (Bishkek) – Kyrgyzstan is convicting hundreds of people for possessing videos, pamphlets, and books that it has banned using a dangerously overbroad definition of extremism, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Offenders are sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison even if they did not distribute the material or use it to incite violence. The 78-page report, “‘We Live in Constant Fear’: Possession of Extremist Material in Kyrgyzstan,” finds that in some cases,…

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