Opposition activists in Kyrgyzstan have been holding a hunger strike protest for two weeks. The group is calling for an end political repression in the country following the jailing of the former defence minister turned opposition leader Ismail Isakov. The European Union recently expressed deep concern over increasing attacks and acts of intimidation towards opposition figures and independent journalists in Kyrgyzstan. Once described as an island of democracy in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan was recently downgraded by the Washington-based rights watchdog Freedom House to "not free". (BBC News)
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