Kyrgyzstan: IPI condemns banning and ‘extremist’ designation of leading independent media

Decision comes weeks ahead of snap parliamentary elections

Kyrgyzstan: IPI condemns new prison verdicts handed to media workers

Former camera operators from independent outlet Kloop receive five-year sentences

Kyrgyzstan: IPI condemns multiple arrests of Kloop staff in latest media crackdown

Eight current and former staffers were detained; two placed in pre-trial detention

Kyrgyzstan: IPI calls on lawmakers to withdraw bill on insult and defamation

Text foresees extrajudicial fines on media to be imposed by Ministry of Interior

Kyrgyzstan: IPI condemns prison sentences handed to Temirov Live journalists

2 media workers sentenced to 6 and 5 years in prison respectively

Kyrgyzstan’s Kloop receives 2024 IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award

Award ceremony to take place this week at IPI's 2024 World Congress in Sarajevo

Kyrgyzstan: IPI demands immediate release of 11 arrested journalists

Court in Bishkek places current and former collaborators of Temirov Live in pre-trial detention

Kyrgyzstan: IPI writes letter to security authorities denouncing censorship of Kloop

Popular independent news site blocked by decision of Ministry of Culture and State Committee of National Security

Kyrgyzstan: IPI condemns attempt to shutter Kloop Media

Lawsuit by Bishkek prosecutor comes weeks after pressure on Radio Azattyk was eased

IPI welcomes Kyrgyz court decision reversing order to close Radio Azattyk

More steps are necessary to slow the decline of press freedom in Kyrgyzstan

Analysis: Planned Kyrgyz foreign agent law threatens press freedom

Russia-inspired bill to be voted on by parliament

Kyrgyzstan urged to stop abusing legislation to target independent media

IPI joins IFEX, partner organizations denouncing increased pressure by president Japarov

IPI urges authorities to reverse ban on Radio Azattyk operations

Court decision latest sign of declining media freedom in Central Asian country

IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award: 10 trailblazing organizations shortlisted

Across 5 continents, these organzations are meeting the moment through innovative models of journalism, media, or press freedom defence

‘Inspired by Russia’: President Japarov’s targeting of Kyrgyzstan’s free press

IPI member Anna Kapushenko of media outlet Kloop on alarming trends in what was once Central Asia’s freest media environment

IPI, partners request meeting with Kyrgyz president

Media landscape rapidly deteriorated since Sadyr Japarov came to power

Kyrgyzstan outlet faces ‘war propaganda’ charges

Country following Russia’s lead repressing its independent media

Kyrgyzstan: YouTube must investigate ban on independent news site

Kloop was temporarily blocked from posting videos during election period

Kyrgyz Supreme Court rejects journalist’s appeal against life imprisonment

IPI strongly condemns ruling in Azimjan Askarov case

Study: criminal defamation unduly limits media freedom

OSCE media freedom representative releases IPI-authored report on laws across region