Topic: Bishkek

Prisoners Sew Mouths Shut in Protest

More than a thousand convicts have stitched their mouths closed to protest prison conditions, a prison official said Friday. The protest, set off...
Hundreds of prisoners organized a desperate action of protest in Kyrgyzstan. The inmates mutilated themselves under patriotic slogans. Officials...

Sewing Discontent

A Kyrgyzstani prisoner with stitched up lips in Bishkek on Jan. 26, 2012. More than 400 inmates in two prisons in the Central Asian country sewed...
Nearly 7,000 prisoners were on a hunger strike Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan with more than 1,000 sewing shut their lips with staples and thread to...
More than 700 detainees in prisons around Kyrgyzstan have gone on hunger strike and sewed their lips together in protest, authorities in the...

Kyrgyz election to test revolutionary reforms

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan aims to complete bold reforms to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy when it votes on Sunday to elect a new president capable of bridging the divisions that threaten stability in the strategic ex-Soviet state.A clean election ...
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MIR Corporation Announces 2011 Uzbekistan Tour Dates

Seattle, WA, February 13, 2011 -(PR.com)- More than 2,000 years ago, the great trade routes that linked Europe and China opened Central Asia to...
Historically, political figures have softened the heart and opened the mind of tough Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by giving him cute...