To be honest, Sheraly Akbotoev does not look like a homicidal fanatic. I was not sure what to expect as I waited, on a sweltering summer’s day, in a visitors’ room of the special prison in the secret-police headquarters in Bishkek, the capital of the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. Then the barred door swung […]
Christian Caryl
Christian Caryl is the author of Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. He has worked as an Opinions editor at The Washington Post, a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, and an editor and columnist at Foreign Policy.
