Tuesday, February 14, 2012


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Kyrgyz Green Party Activist Beaten, Threatened

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Unknown assailants have attacked an activist of Kyrgyzstan's opposition Green Party and demanded that she withdraw documents she filed with the Central Election Commission, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

Gulmira Asylbekova was beaten during the attack, and has filed an official complaint to the local police urging them to investigate the assault.

A week earlier, Asylbekova had monitored the country's presidential election on July 23 and urged the Central Election Commission to note a number of violations she reported during the vote.

The leader of Kyrgyzstan's Green Party, Erkin Bulekbayev, has been imprisoned for insulting President Kurmanbek Bakiev in April.

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