On Aike Beishekeyeva’s 23rd birthday on January 16, the young Kyrgyz journalist was planning to buy a cake to share with her colleagues. That celebration never happened. Instead, early that morning, B
In October 2024, Makhabat Tazhibek kyzy was convicted of organizing or aiding in “calls for mass unrest” and sentenced to six years in a Kyrgyz prison. Tazhibek kyzy is the director of Temirov Live an