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Rita Karasartova

Facing 15 years in prison for peacefully protesting

Kyrgyzstan

Rita Karasartova

Facing 15 years in prison

for peacefully protesting

Kyrgyzstan

Rita Karasartova loves yoga, traveling and sewing traditional Kyrgyzstani jackets with her daughter. Now she is under house arrest, having spent months detained in a cramped cell unable to see or speak to her family. Worried about her people’s access to water, Rita peacefully opposed a border agreement giving control of a freshwater reservoir to Uzbekistan. She has been charged with attempting to “violently overthrow the government” and faces 15 years’ imprisonment.    

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