Leila Sydykova: They want to return Kyrgyzstan to the Soviet repressive system
New codes reduce the fine for obstructing the professional activities of a journalist
Vesti.kg <TAG1> The Prosecutor General's Office initiated amendments to the Criminal, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Executive Codes and the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Kyrgyz Republic. Experts and human rights activists are sounding the alarm – these amendments take the country back to 1997, when we lived by norms that did not have the concept of human rights, but there was room for the permissiveness of law enforcement agencies.
Judicial and legal reform in Kyrgyzstan began back in 2012. The five main bills passed first one parliament, then the second, that is, a fairly long process took place, including numerous expert discussions. Two years were given to law enforcement agencies working in the field of enforcement of these codes for review. And since 2019, new codes have come into force.
According to Doctor of Law, Professor, expert of the PF «Strategic Decisions» Leila Sydykova, with the entry into force of the new codes, law enforcement agencies felt difficulties, because they needed to restructure their work – to move away from the old, rather repressive system when their extra-procedural actions became procedural.
