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🚨 Kyrgyz authorities are threatening to block the website of our member center @Kloopkg if they don’t remove an article about the country’s conflict with Tajikistan. #PressFreedom

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The article under scrutiny, which officials claim contains false information, is about the cost of reconstruction from last year’s border clashes with Tajikistan.

Kloop stands by their reporting and will not remove the article. Read it here (in Russian): kloop.kg/blog/2023/01/2…
The Kyrgyz gov't has already blocked the website of our partner @AzattykMedia after they refused to remove an article about the Tajik border conflict.

Kloop says they’re prepared to defend themselves in court if they end up facing the same fate.
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🇰🇬 Transparency is rapidly disappearing in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s most democratic country, leaving journalists and citizens with fewer resources to expose corruption.

Here's how the Kyrgyz gov’t has enabled itself to operate in the shadows. (Thread)

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2) Kyrgyzstan was the only country in Central Asia where data on the wealth of civil servants and politicians has been available for years.

But under the leadership of President Sadyr Japarov, these declarations could soon be made secret. Image
3) The Japarov administration has also proposed allowing the “legalization” of public officials’ undocumented assets, including those obtained by criminal means. Image
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