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Human Rights Developments Defending Human Rights The Role of the International Community In March, prosecutors formally warned NGO Coalition for Democracy leader, Toletan Ismailova, Lidia Fomova of the Association for Social Protection of the Population, and other NGO leaders that they faced arrest under Criminal Code article 233, which punishes "destabilizing the social order," for their human rights activities. In May the Ministry of Justice refused to register the nongovernmental Guild of Prisoners of Conscience, stating that the Kyrgyz constitution precluded any arrests on political grounds. The Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR) and its chairman, Ramazan Dyryldaev, faced increasingly serious harassment, as state officials attempted to confiscate the group's property, after court decisions revoked its registration. Facing arrest on criminal charges in late July, Dyryldaev, his son, and one other KCHR activist fled the country, and they remained abroad as of this writing. |
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