Aigerim Turgunbaeva

Pros­ti­tu­tion ac­cu­sa­tions against women work­ing in saunas prompt four young women to at­tempt sui­cide near Bishkek.

With the Cen­tral Asian na­tion fac­ing eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal chal­lenges, asy­lum seek­ers hope they can even­tu­al­ly move on.

Aiza­da Kanat­beko­va’s stalk­er mur­dered her af­ter she re­ject­ed his ad­vances in a case that has prompt­ed calls for re­form.