"Kyrgyzstan: Activist Faces Extradition, Risk of Torture", 24 June 2018

...Kyrgyzstan’s prosecutor general’s office on May 21 granted Kazakhstan’s extradition request for Murat Tungishbaev, the activist and critic of the Kazakh government. Tungishbaev would face a serious risk of torture and ill-treatment and of politically motivated prosecution in Kazakhstan...Tungishbaev, 40, co-founded the human rights group Liberty in 2011. The group has worked on freedom of assembly, anti-discrimination, and other human rights issues. Tungishbaev fled Kazakhstan in 2012, after security services summoned him for reporting on the oil workers’ strike and an outbreak of violence in the town of Zhanaozen in 2011...Kyrgyzstan’s Committee on National Security (GKNB) arrested him on May 10, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, at the behest of the Kazakh Prosecutor General’s office. The Kazakh prosecutor has accused Tungishbaev of “financing the activities of a criminal group, as well as storage, distribution of property, development of financing channel” and “organizing or participating in an organization after a court decision to ban its activities [on grounds of] extremism…’”