Attacks on the Press 2010: Kyrgyzstan
Top Developments • Bakiyev censors news media in a failed attempt to hold power. • Amid ethnic clashes, Uzbek journalists and outlets targeted for reprisals. Key Statistic 2: Ethnic Uzbek journalists imprisoned as of December 1. In a year of political revolt and deadly ethnic turmoil, successive presidential administrations cracked down on the press, using…
Attacks on the Press 2010: Uzbekistan
Top Developments • State deploys analysts to build sweeping criminal defamation cases. • Numerous regional and international news websites are blocked. Key Statistic 6: Journalists in prison on December 1, the highest figure in the region. Even as President Islam Karimov was calling for more “active” news reporting, his government was rolling out a new…
Attacks on the Press 2010: Europe and Central Asia Developments
ATTACKS ON THE PRESS: 2010 • Main Index Europe and Central Asia Regional Analysis: • On the Runet, Old-School Repression Meets New Country Summaries • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Russia • Serbia • Ukraine • Uzbekistan • Other nations CROATIA In November, the Municipal Court in Zagreb convicted six…
Kyrgyzstan detains journalists as violence continues
New York, June 23, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Kyrgyz authorities to immediately release independent journalists Ulugbek Abdusalomov and Azimjon Askarov, and to ensure the safety of other journalists working in southern Kyrgyzstan, which has been engulfed by interethnic violence since early June.
Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
When the independent television outlet Stan TV was raided by Kyrgyz financial police on April 1, authorities claimed they were investigating the use of unlicensed software. The timing of the raid implied a different motivation. As CPJ reported at the time, the day before, the Kyrgyz courts had shut down the pro-opposition newspaper Forum. In…
