Fear of the Chinese authorities had kept Zhengis Zarhan silent about the abuses his wife was suffering in Xinjiang, until they did something to her that made him “crazy”.
Eurasianet’s Kyrgyzstan-based photojournalist Danil Usmanov has for weeks been watching his country’s unfolding coronavirus crisis. In this essay, he describes some of his observations.
The activist’s death in prison reflects poorly on the substantial investments that the international community has made into overhauling Kyrgyzstan’s notoriously selective and corrupt justice system.