Kyrgyzstan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In Kyrgyzstan there are 35 prisons, only 5 of which...
- News items in the archive
- 106
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Kyrgyzstan is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 106 news items on Kyrgyzstan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JUNE 27, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN PRESIDENT SIGNS LEGISLATION ENDING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed legislation amending Kyrgyzstan's criminal codes and abolishing the death penalty.
- MARCH 29, 2007KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES NEARING ABOLITION
activists hope the countries of Central Asia will soon abolish capital punishment. Turkmenistan abolished the death penalty in 1999.
- JANUARY 29, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad with long prison term
- JANUARY 26, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZ COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Andrey Zemerov, who was accused of committing two murders, was sentenced to death in the Lenin district court in Bishkek according to the Delo No newspaper.
- JANUARY 1, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
On June 27, 2007 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev...
On June 27, 2007 Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed legislation amending Kyrgyzstan's criminal codes and abolishing the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 2, 2006KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZ JUSTICE MINISTER IN FAVOUR OF ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
“The abolition of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan is fully in line with the mentality of the Kyrgyz people,” Kyrgyz Justice Minister Marat Kayypov said at a news conference.
- 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
- DECEMBER 22, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. EU URGES KYRGYZSTAN TO EXTEND DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM
the European Union urged Kyrgyzstan to extend a death penalty moratorium until the country passed a law abolishing it.
- DECEMBER 21, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ NGO URGES PRESIDENT TO EXTEND DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM
the Kylym Shamy public foundation, a Kyrgyz human rights NGO...
- DECEMBER 14, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir Uulu asked President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir Uulu asked President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
- DECEMBER 2, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that Kyrgyz parliamentarians
it was reported that Kyrgyz parliamentarians
- NOVEMBER 2, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
President Askar Akayev established a two-year moratorium on executions
President Askar Akayev established a two-year moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 13, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. PRESIDENT CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev called for constitutional amendments that would abolish the death penalty and strip future presidents of immunity from prosecution after they stepped down from office.
- JUNE 22, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN HUMAN RIGHTS, REFUGEE CHIEFS URGE KYRGYZSTAN TO PROTECT UZBEKS
Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, urged Kyrgyzstan to grant protection to people who had fled unrest in neighbouring Uzbekistan. Arbour and Guterres also said that Uzbekis
- APRIL 28, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN. PRESIDENT BAKIYEV CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
acting president Kurmanbek Bakiyev said at a constitutional conference in Bishkek that Kyrgyzstan must abolish the death penalty.
- JANUARY 25, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyzstan may abolish death penalty in 2006
Kyrgyzstan may abolish death penalty in 2006
- JANUARY 15, 2005KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyzstan extended its moratorium on the execution of death sentences until December 31
Kyrgyzstan extended its moratorium on the execution of death sentences until December 31
- DECEMBER 10, 2004KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
on International Human rights Day, Kyrgyz Ombudsman...
on International Human rights Day, Kyrgyz Ombudsman...
- DECEMBER 3, 2004KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that the trial of Mikhail Trutnev, a man accused of cannibalism...
it was reported that the trial of Mikhail Trutnev, a man accused of cannibalism...