Kyrgyz Green Party Activist Beaten; News on Azerbaijani Green Party

This is troubling news….

Unknown assailants have attacked an activist of Kyrgyzstan’s opposition Green Party and demanded that she withdraw documents she filed with the Central Election Commission, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.

Gulmira Asylbekova was beaten during the attack, and has filed an official complaint to the local police urging them to investigate the assault.

A week earlier, Asylbekova had monitored the country’s presidential election on July 23 and urged the Central Election Commission to note a number of violations she reported during the vote.

The leader of Kyrgyzstan’s Green Party, Erkin Bulekbayev, has been imprisoned for insulting President Kurmanbek Bakiev in April.

Source: Radio Free Europe

Also….news on the Azerbaijani Green Party….

Green demand constitutional changes for struggle against pollution of Baku

Azerbaijan Green Party is for peace talks with Armenia

BP Azerbaijan and Statoil accused of Caspian Sea pollution

I’m not sure if the Kyrgyzstan Green Party or the Azerbaijani Green Party are recognized by the Global Greens. All the news stories (in English at least) I found on the Azerbaijani Greens came from one source: The Azerbaijan Business Center.

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  1. Joe Shriner says:
    July 30, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Thank you for the informative reporting.

    I attended the Green Party meeting in Durham with our family.

    Had a wonderful time.

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