Hundreds of residents in three villages in Kyrgyzstan's Naryn, Talas, and Jalal-Abad regions rallied over the weekend to demand the immediate release of 11 jailed Kyrgyz politicians, journalists, and activists who are on trial along with 16 others who are under house arrest for their 2022 protest against a Kyrgyz-Uzbek border-delimitation deal. The activists were arrested in October 2022 after they protested against the controversial deal, which saw Kyrgyzstan hand over the territory of the Kempir-Abad water reservoir to Uzbekistan. Many border areas in Central Asia have been disputed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, click here.
Kyrgyz Villages Rally To Demand Release Of Border-Deal Protesters
Protests were held in three villages in Kyrgyzstan over the Kempir-Abad case.