Joint Report For UN Assessment Of Turkmenistan's Women's Rights Record – OpEd – Eurasia Review eurasiareview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurasiareview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A recent wave of raids and detentions targeting independent and investigative journalists signaled how rapidly media freedom is deteriorating in Kyrgyzstan. These are worrying developments in a media space that has decidedly worsened over the last couple of years, since President Sadyr Japarov took power. A repressive draft media law, which is now under consideration in parliament, risks making things even worse.
The Kyrgyz authorities should drop criminal cases of “war propaganda” and “calls to mass disorder” initiated against several independent media outlets, including 24.KG, Temirov Live, Ayt Ayt Dese, Alga Media, Archa Media, and Politklinika, launched in clear retaliation for their independent reporting, Human Rights Watch, Civil Rights Defenders, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), Norwegian Helsinki Committee, People in Need, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights said today in a joint statement. Authorities should stop intimidating and harassing journalists, and allow them to carry out their work without obstruction.
Rights Groups Urge Kyrgyzstan To Stop Crackdown On Independent Media globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.