Michael McFeat, expat working at a mine in Kyrgyzstan, faces years in prison for defaming a local food delicacy.

It is impossible to defame Kyrgyzstan's human rights record, which is worse even than Thailand's.

Even "free" countries in Europe are not free of the practice of criminalizing insults.

The state sensibly deported him rather than imprisoning him, but that doesn't reduce the injustice of having a law that prohibits such statements.