Edil Baisalov
He participated in the Tulip Revolution of 2005 and following the 2010 Kyrgyzstani uprising on April 7, 2010, briefly served as Chief of Staff of the interim government led by Roza Otunbayeva.
[citation needed] In February 2003, the Kyrgyz government forcibly hospitalized Baisalov, preventing him from attending an NGO meeting.
On April 12, 2006, he survived an attempted assassination for his vocal criticism of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's failure to battle organized crime.
In July 2006 he was the recipient of the American Bar Association's international rule of law award presented by the US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the following citation: "Edil Baisalov, President of the Coalition of NGOs for Democracy and Civil Society, Kyrgyzstan.
Steadfast human rights advocate, he has promoted reform efforts designed to advance democracy and abate corruption in his country.
[15] In 1999-2007 Baisalov led the 'Coalition for Civil Society and Democracy', the largest Kyrgyz advocacy and election monitoring network.
[16] However, after coming to power in 2020 and being appointed to the post of Deputy Prime Minister, Edil Baisalov completely changed his previous rhetoric, and began to be called the "great justifier" of the authorities.
It was alleged that Baisalov published the ballot on his blog and the General Prosecutor charged him with attempt to undermine integrity of elections.
[19] Baisalov claimed that he was a victim of political vendetta and left Kyrgyzstan on December 8, 2007, for Kazakhstan and was resettled with his family in Sweden by UNHCR.
[23] On May 28, 2019, Foreign Affairs Committee of Jogorku Kenesh approved and nominated Baisalov to be the Kyrgyz Republic Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
In particular, during debates on Radio "Liberty", he openly spoke out against the parliamentary system of government:"We don't care about the opinion of all 90 deputies now.
Despite being a member of the NGO community himself, Baisalov openly stated that "many NGOs exist for blanket accusations and defamation of power".
[29] Prior to the adoption of this law, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made statements about the potential danger posed by foreign NGOs in Kyrgyzstan.
[30] Baisalov became the main driver in promoting this law: "The time has come to put an end to the uncontrolled financing of our civil and public organizations by any external forces.
"[31] The heads of human rights organizations reminded Baisalov that at one time, during the period of persecution by the authorities, he himself "cried and asked for support" from NGOs.
One of the political activists was arrested after showing the middle finger to Edil Baisalov during a parliamentary discussion on the introduction of troops into Kazakhstan during a period of instability in 2022.
[38] In December, the journalists from Temirov Live reported that Akylbek Japarov flew to Japan on a private business jet, costing the budget 10 million soms.
Investigators wondered why spend on a private plane flight when the entire Cabinet has to economize due to the forecasted record budget deficit of 35 billion soms.
