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The security services in Kyrgyzstan say they have shut down 39 mosques and 21 Islamic schools in the southern Osh region as part of an ongoing mass inspection of religious institutions. In its August ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Kyrgyzstan's Niqab Ban: Dozens Of Women Fined, Hundreds Warned In Police Raids
Police in Kyrgyzstan have issued hefty fines and official warnings to hundreds of women wearing the niqab, a face veil that is banned in the Muslim-majority country. At least 29 women were each fined ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Former Kyrgyz Customs Official Matraimov's Brother To Face Trial Soon
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- The Osh regional court in Kyrgyzstan's south told RFE/RL on May 27 that it had registered a criminal case against Tilek Matraimov, a brother of Raimbek Matraimov, the former deputy ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan still in limbo a year after fleeing Andijan violence
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, May 12 (UNHCR) - On the first anniversary of the violent events in Andijan, eastern Uzbekistan, Haitvoy* has every reason to sigh. The 29-year-old Uzbek has been in exile in ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Kyrgyzstan accuses sacked security chief of corruption as purge widens
BISHKEK, March 16 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan’s tax authority on Monday published a video accusing ex-security chief Kamchybek Tashiev of corruption, amid a widening purge of his allies. Tashiev, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Security: Crisis in Kyrgyzstan leaves 300,000 internally displaced
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, June 17 (UNHCR) - Violence in southern Kyrgyzstan has forced an estimated 300,000 people to flee their homes and seek shelter elsewhere in the country. This is in addition to some ...