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Absurd and outrageous

In major step backwards, access to Ferghana news website blocked

Published on 21 February 2012Read

Total impunity

Murdered Uzbek journalist’s brother beaten unconscious in Osh

Published on 17 August 2011Read

Link to victim’s work ignored in trial of Kyrgyz journalist’s accused murderers

The trial of three people accused of killing Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk in the Kazakh capital of Almaty in December 2009 by throwing him (...)

Published on 8 June 2011 Read

Disturbing spate of physical attacks on journalists

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by a new wave of threats and physical attacks on journalists during the past few weeks in both Bishkek, the (...)

Published on 20 May 2011 Read

Call for humane treatment for jailed journalists and respect for press charter

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the way the authorities are treating Ulugbek Abdusalomov, a newspaper editor based in the southern city (...)

Published on 19 August 2010 Read

Local authorities take over Osh TV after national security raid and director’s dismissal

Reporters Without Borders is worried about the provisional government’s takeover of nearly all of Kyrgyzstan’s TV stations and the procedures being (...)

Published on 20 July 2010 Read

Kyrgyzstan. Where is it? What is it?

Official Name: Kyrgyz Republic President: post vacant (Kurmanbek BAKIYEV resigned on 15 April 2010) Prime Minister: Roza OTUNBAYEVA (interim (...)

Published on 7 July 2010 Read

Journalists prevented from doing their job

As violence continues, the media are increasingly being prevented from working in the south of Kyrgyzstan. News is being reported only (...)

Published on 17 June 2010 Read

Media are collateral victims of latest unrest in Osh

Reporters Without Borders deplores the impact on the local media of what appears to be a revolution without end. With a referendum on a new (...)

Published on 11 June 2010 Read

Power changes hands but censorship resumes in southern city

Reporters Without Borders condemns the decision by the provisional government’s Coordinating Council in the southern region of Osh to introduce a (...)

Published on 20 April 2010 Read

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Two Azerbaijani writers missing in Iran

Azerbaijan - 21 May 2012

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Sweden - 18 May 2012

Three journalists convicted for researching availability of illegal firearms

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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