Kyrgyzstan: court denies media outlet's appeal against shutdown order (Update)

Event
Country
  • Kyrgyzstan
Initial Date
May 17, 2024
Event Description

On 17 May 2024, the Bishkek City Court refused to consider human rights media outlet Kloop Media’s appeal of the February 9th decision to shut down the outlet. The Court stated that Kloop Media had a late submission of the text of the appeal and thus refused to review it. Kloop’s lawyer, in his commentary, said that he made a mistake in the address of the Ministry of Justice building in Bishkek and received the submitted appeal back, as it could not be delivered. The lawyer resubmitted it immediately; however, the Court denied it, as the timeline for the appeal has passed. Kloop Media will appeal the refusal to consider its appeal.

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
Violation
  • Censorship
  • Judicial Harassment
Rights Concerned
  • Media freedom
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to work
HRD
  • Media Worker
Perpetrator-State
  • Judiciary
Source

FLD

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 42.85764141101811

Longitude: 74.64836691992338

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 17 May 2024, independent media outlet, Kloop Media. had the city court deny their appeal of the shutdown order issued by a district court in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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