On human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan, in particular the case of Temirlan Sultanbekov
B-10-2024-0222
on behalf of The Left Group · Rapporteur: Merja Kyllönen
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- Full procedure 2024/2993
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This resolution condemns the shrinking civic space in Kyrgyzstan and attacks on dissenting voices, urging authorities to release arbitrarily detained opposition members, human rights defenders, journalists, and bloggers, including Temirlan Sultanbekov.¶¶ It calls on Kyrgyzstan to respect international human rights obligations, ensure free elections, repeal repressive laws, and create a safe environment for civil society and media.¶¶¶ It underlines the need for an EU-Central Asia strategy aligned with human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, in cooperation with local civil society.¶
Key points
- Condemns the shrinking of civic space in Kyrgyzstan and attacks on dissenting voices.¶
- Urges Kyrgyz authorities to immediately release arbitrarily detained opposition members, human rights defenders, journalists, and bloggers, particularly Sultanbekov, Karamushkina, and Tyurksever.¶
- Urges authorities to abide by international human rights obligations and respect freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly, judicial independence, fair trial, and due process.¶
- Calls on authorities to create and maintain a safe environment for civil society, journalists, media workers, and politicians, without undue interference, criminalisation, censorship, or persecution.¶
- Urges authorities to ensure full enjoyment of electoral rights and allow all political parties to conduct equal, free, and transparent electoral campaigns and free and fair elections.¶
- Strongly calls on Kyrgyz authorities to withdraw or repeal repressive laws limiting freedom of expression, political freedoms, and civil society activities, and criminalizing dissent.¶
- Underlines the need for an EU-Central Asia strategy based on mutually beneficial cooperation, designed, implemented, and monitored in line with human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, in cooperation with local civil society.¶
Who is affected
- Kyrgyz authorities: must release detainees, respect rights, ensure fair elections, and repeal repressive laws.¶¶¶
- Detained opposition members, human rights defenders, journalists, and bloggers in Kyrgyzstan: would be released and protected.
- Civil society organisations, journalists, media workers, and politicians in Kyrgyzstan: would operate without interference.¶