The authorities have accused Temirov Live, a respected investigative outlet, of inciting mass unrest, and jailed nearly a dozen of its current and former employees.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned a Kyrgyz court’s decision to uphold the two-month pretrial detention of 11 current and former employees of the anti-corruption investigative media group Temirov Live.
The European Court of Justice on February 7 rejected appeals filed by Uzbek-born Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov and former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov against European sanctions imposed on them for having close ties with the Kremlin and supporting Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Two blasts near election offices of candidates in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan killed more than 20 people on February 7, a day before a parliamentary vote is to be held in the South Asian country.