"In the Field: Mongolia & Kyrgyzstan", 15 October 2015

Front Line Defenders Head of Campaigns visits Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan to meet environmentalists confronting extractive industries in an effort to protect the environment. The research is for the next book in the series of nonfiction graphic novels produced by Front Line Defenders in cooperation with local HRDs...[He] traveled to Kyrgyzstan to investigate the situation for environmental and community HRDs challenging the operations at the Kumtor Mine, operated by Canadian-owned Centerra Gold...Over the years, protests had been repressed and leading figures in the protest movement jailed, beaten, tortured and harassed...