Kyrgyzstan: media worker loses appeal against 5-year prison term (Update)
Event- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Initial Date
- Jul 15, 2024
- Event Description
The Chui regional court in northern Kyrgyzstan on July 15 rejected an appeal filed by government critic and journalist Oljobai Shakir (aka Egemberdiev) against the five-year prison term he was handed in mid-May on a charge of making online calls for mass unrest. Shakir called the regional court's ruling "unjust." He was arrested in August 2023, days after he criticized the government's decision to hand four spa centers near Lake Issyk-Kul to Uzbekistan and called on President Sadyr Japarov and the chief of the State Committee of National Security, Kamchybek Tashiev, to participate in public debates with him.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to liberty and security
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 42.88685657593727
Longitude: 74.60723693579105
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 15 July 2024, Oljobai Shakir, detained media worker, had his appeal rejected against the 5-year conviction he was handed down in May on false charges by the regional court of Chui, Kyrgyzstan.
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