Kyrgyz Government Turns Up The Heat On Critics

President Sadyr Japarov’s authorities is displaying its intolerance for residents who query authorities choices. In a broadly posted video and images, veteran rights defender Aziza Abdurasulova, who’s in her 70s, was dragged away by police exterior the federal government constructing in Bishkek on November 15. Abdurasulova has been a vocal critic of the detentions of greater than two dozen individuals who oppose a controversial border deal Japarov’s authorities reached with neighboring Uzbekistan. Who’s being focused in Kyrgyzstan and why? Becoming a member of host Bruce Pannier to debate the subject are Syinat Sultanalieva, researcher on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for Human Rights Watch, and Ivar Dale, senior coverage adviser on the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, who was in Kyrgyzstan in October.