The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP or Commission) warmly welcomes the decisive ruling issued by the Constitutional Court of the Kyrgyz Republic (Court) on 10 December 2025, Human Rights Day, which concluded “that reinstating the death penalty through a constitutional amendment is incompatible with the Constitution and is therefore impermissible and impossible.” According to the statement of the Court, the ruling was “based on the entirety of constitutional and international legal arguments.”
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