The authorities of Kyrgyzstan have repeatedly violated the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in recent months and persecuted those who tried to exercise it, including anti-war protesters who have left Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The police have arbitrarily prevented and terminated peaceful anti-war demonstrations which they regarded as actions that “foment inter-ethnic tension” in Kyrgyzstan. Some peaceful protesters have been fined for their purported violations.
