Leila Nazgül Seiitbek

Because of her work as a human rights activist, she became the target of a smear campaign and a kidnapping attack[3] launched by Kyrgyz authorities and was forced to flee Kyrgyzstan.

Seiitbek has been vocal about the increasing trend of women political prisoners and a strong advocate for transparency, democracy, and the protection of civil liberties in Central Asia.

On April 5, 2016, the Kyrgyz authorities aired a news program on state TV channel where they named Leila and her husband "fraudsters” and American agents.

One of their major reports was Who Enabled the Uzbek Princess,[17] which was launched in 2024[18] which discusses the service provider who facilitate post-Soviet kleptocrats efforts to store their wealth in the West.

[19] She participates in a number of coalitions that work on these issues, including the Uzbek Asset Return Network, that tracks down assets received by members of corrupt Uzbek elites, Human Rights Impact Hub,[2] a platform that provides complementary capacity-building, networking and knowledge-sharing tools on universal jurisdiction, targeted sanctions, and climate justice to equip lawyers with the necessary practical skills to engage in innovative litigation strategies run by International Partnership for Human Rights [3], Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC),[4] and The Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (GACC) [5] where she conducts research on Eurasia.

The organization has been instrumental in bringing attention to the growing threat of kleptocracies and the need of more active use of sanctions against human righths and corruption abusers in Central Asia.