Freedom of Religion and Belief
KYRGYZSTAN: Did torture cause jailed Reform Adventist pastor’s brain damage? by Mushfig Bayram Forum 18 (14.10.2025) – 65-year-old True and Free Reform Adventist Pastor Pavel Shreider – serving a 3-year jail term – is in a prison medical unit after...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KYRGYZSTAN: Reform Adventist pastor’s three-year jail term + deportation by Felix Corley and Mushfig Bayram Forum18 (14.07.2025) – In November 2024 the NSC secret police arrested and tortured True and Free Reform Adventist Pastor Pavel Shreider, placing him in...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KYRGYZSTAN: US Commission on International Religious Freedom alarmed by regressive amendments to the religion laws USCIRF (31.01.2025) – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) decries recent amendments to the religion law and related...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan bans islamic niqab as critics warn it could alienate some women By Farangis Najibullah Radio Free Europe (01.02.2025) – Kyrgyzstan has become the latest country in Muslim-majority Central Asia to ban the Islamic niqab, a long garment that...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
OSCE-KYRGYZSTAN: A controversial new religious legislation Oral statement of Human Rights Without Frontiers at the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw HRWF (07.10.2024) – Human Rights Without Frontiers is deeply concerned about the newest version of the...
