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-# Expansion batch, 28 October 2026 — Asia 5
+# Expansion batch, 28 October 2026 — Asia 5 (Central Asia)
-Chosen from `country-gaps.cjs --rank 25 --region Asia`. North Korea, Syria, Palestine,
-Turkmenistan, Timor-Leste and Yemen were skipped again for thin or inaccessible primary sources.
-The batch is Mongolia, Lebanon, Bhutan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
+Chosen from `country-gaps.cjs --rank 25 --region Asia`. The batch is Turkmenistan, Tajikistan,
+Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan: five post-Soviet jurisdictions with criminal-code drug
+offences, shared 1961/1988 treaty obligations and different paths on possession thresholds and
+medical research. None was marked busy.
| Country | Done | Left | Commit |
|---|---|---|---|
-| Mongolia | hemp/driving/arrests/culture sections, citations, 7 history entries | 1930s–1970s empty; 1925 first-restriction estimate still unsupported | b710a97 |
-| Lebanon | rebuilt on Law 673 and Law 178, four penalty tables, hemp/culture/driving/arrests sections, 7 history entries | no cultivation licence by August 2026; fines eroded by currency collapse | 876876f |
-| Bhutan | possession/cultivation/sharing tables, hemp/planting/driving/arrests sections, corrected sections and thresholds, 8 history entries; 1925 estimate replaced by the 2004 Penal Code | 1930s–1970s empty; 2018 amendment commencement unknown | 1451c8b |
-| Jordan | hemp section, products folded, possession/cultivation/sharing tables, corrected arrest figures, 1940s/2000s history and 2024–2026 entries | 1925 first-restriction estimate still unsupported; 2003 gazette day uncertain | aae8d7b |
-| United Arab Emirates | hemp section, products folded, possession/cultivation/sharing tables, port-fine tiers, black market and arrests, 4 history entries, corrected deportation and 2021 penalties | no cannabis-only seizure series; high-THC medical cannabis remains illegal | 8e044e6 |
+| Turkmenistan | in progress | | |
+| Tajikistan | in progress | | |
+| Kazakhstan | in progress | | |
+| Uzbekistan | in progress | | |
+| Kyrgyzstan | living-weight thresholds, death-penalty and research sections, 14 history entries | 20/600 g and 80/2,400 g bands; 1940s empty | this commit |
-UAE validation: `profile-audit ae` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps ae` has no missing sections or tables and no uncited text; `history:test` passes 47/47; the 5,143-page build passed and the page shows three tables and the 1969–2026 entries.
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-Jordan validation: `profile-audit jo` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps jo` has no missing sections or tables and no uncited text; `history:test` passes 47/47; the build passed and the page shows three tables. The arrests text and the 2025 history entry now use the Public Security Directorate's like-for-like crime series instead of the NCHR comparison that mixed crimes with people.
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-Bhutan validation: `profile-audit bt` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps bt` has no missing sections or tables and no uncited text; `npm test` passes 179/179; the 5,160-page build passed and the page shows three tables. The profile now uses the 2015/2018 Act's sections 131–134 and Schedule VII thresholds (50 g herbal, 7 g hashish, 3 ml oil, five plants), replacing the mistaken 7 g herbal figure and section 137 citation. The first recorded restriction is now the 2004 Penal Code rather than the unsupported 1925 estimate; the 1930s–1970s remain empty for lack of any cannabis-specific event.
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-Lebanon validation: `profile-audit lb` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps lb` has no missing sections or tables, no uncited text and no empty decades; `history:test` passes 47/47. The profile now follows Law 673's article 127 personal-use penalty and the article 125/126 life sentence for other possession and supply, and explains that Law 178 licensed production without creating patient access. The 1951, 1970 and 1984 entries come from JIED's citations to contemporaneous press; the original newspaper pages were not opened.
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-Mongolia validation: `profile-audit mn` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps mn` has no missing sections or tables and no uncited text; `history:test` passes 47/47; the 5,177-page build passed and the page shows three tables. The profile now records that consumption has no standalone crime, only public-intoxication penalties and possession exposure, and adds the 1986 cultivation ban, 1999 treaty, 2024 drug-driving and 17 kg seizure, 2025 action plan and nightclub raids, and 2026 draft law. The 1930s–1970s remain empty because no cannabis-specific event was found; the 1925 estimate remains until the 1961 Criminal Code can be checked.
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-## Batch validation
-
-All five profiles pass `profile-audit` with zero errors and warnings. None has a missing standard or researched section or penalty table, and none has uncited or Wikipedia-only text. `npm test` passes 179 of 179, the final build produced 5,180 pages, and `npm run seo:audit` checked 5,182 HTML files, 4,965 indexable pages and 229,804 internal links with no problems.
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-Remaining gaps: Mongolia still has empty 1930s–1970s history and an unsupported 1925 first-restriction estimate, which should be replaced once the 1961 Criminal Code is checked. Bhutan also has empty 1930s–1970s history and no 2018 amendment commencement date. Jordan's 1925 estimate remains unsupported and its 2003 amendment day is uncertain. Lebanon has no consolidated 2024–2026 cannabis arrest series, and its 1951, 1970 and 1984 entries rest on JIED's citations to contemporaneous press rather than the original pages. The UAE has no cannabis-only seizure series; high-THC medical cannabis remains illegal, and the English text of Article 42(3) misprints the third-offence fine maximum. No new articles were written for these five countries.
+Kyrgyzstan validation: `profile-audit kg` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps kg` has no missing sections, tables or citations. The profile now states the living-organism cultivation thresholds (80 g small, up to 2,400 g large), adds a death-penalty section confirming abolition and the 10 December 2025 Constitutional Court ruling, a research section, the foreigner-expulsion consequence and the 2022 $5/g street price. The 2024 seizure figure is 299 kg, and 14 entries cover 1961–2026.