Kyrgyzstan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- June 27, 2010
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on French and Russian civil law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral; Supreme Council or Jorgorku Kenesh
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court; Constitutional Court
RELIGIONS
75% Muslims; 20% Russian Orthodox; 5% other
From the country
- OCTOBER 18, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. THREE MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Kyrgyz court has sentenced to death three men charged with taking part in an armed raid in the south of the Central Asian country earlier this year, a state prosecution official said.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. MINISTER SAYS COUNTRY TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY SOON
Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Justice Minister says his country will soon abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment.
- AUGUST 3, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KYRGYZ LAWMAKER
a court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced to death three men charged with killing a member of the Central Asian state's parliament.
- JULY 17, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
two Kyrgyz men charged with killing a parliamentarian have been sentenced to death, the general prosecutor's office said.
- JUNE 23, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. PRO-UIGHUR 'EXTREMIST' SENTENCED TO DEATH
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court sentenced to death Otabek Akhadov, an Uzbek citizen, after he was found guilty of several murders connected to what officials describe as an ethnic-Uighur extremist group active in neighbouring China, the man's lawyer Nina Zotov
- JUNE 16, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. NO NEED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, MP
“Many people say that it is necessary to abolish death penalty. I do not think we need abolish it.
- MARCH 27, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. DEATH ROW INMATES PETITION PRESIDENT
over 20 Kyrgyz prisoners sentenced to death have appealed to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev requesting their convictions be re-examined in a letter published by the local media.
- MARCH 15, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. UZBEK RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PRAISE CONDITIONS IN KYRGYZ DEATH ROW CELL
the leaders of the Uzbek public association ‘Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture’, Tamara Chikunova and Dilobar Xudoberganova, shared their views with journalists at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, after visiting a death row cell at Bi
- FEBRUARY 12, 2006KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL ASIA. ACTIVISTS CAMPAIGN TO END DEATH PENALTY
human rights activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan met to plan a two-year campaign to abolish the death penalty in Central Asia.
- JANUARY 10, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN UNION. EU SUPPORTS KYRGYZ MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
the European Union has welcomed Kyrgyzstan's decision to prolong its moratorium on the death penalty.
- JANUARY 1, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
On December 29, 2005 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev pledged to eliminate the death penalty...
On December 29, 2005 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev pledged to eliminate the death penalty...
- DECEMBER 29, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev