Ahmadiyya in Kyrgyzstan

[3] In view of the country's security service's claim that the Ahmadis represent a "dangerous movement" which is "against traditional Islam", the State Commission on Religious Affairs refused to re-register the Community in 2011.

As a consequence, Salamat Kyshtobayev, a leading member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court which was later rejected in July 2014.

The hearing, which was chaired by Judge Aynash Tokbayeva, consisted of members of the Commission, and as well as representatives of the National Security Committee secret police.

[6] According to an unnamed human rights activist, the "authorities turn a blind eye to hate speeches on TV and other media, and in mosques about Ahmadi Muslims and other vulnerable religious groups".

[7] Three days later, on December 25, the local police arrested nine suspects who claimed that they were told to launch an attack on Ahmadis by a terrorist group linked to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.