Kyrgyzstan: prominent media worker banned from travel abroad (Update)
Event- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Initial Date
- Nov 13, 2022
- Event Description
Kyrgyz investigative journalist Bolot Temirov, who was shortlisted for the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Awards 2022 last week, says he will be unable to travel to Paris in December if he is chosen as a winner. Temirov told RFE/RL on November 13 that his passport was canceled by investigators. Although Temirov was acquitted in September of drug charges that he called politically motivated, persecutors appealed his acquittal. Temirov was arrested in January for allegedly possessing illegal drugs, which he says were planted by police.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Judicial Harassment
- Restrictions on Movement
- Travel Restriction
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of movement
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 42.88425156953805
Longitude: 74.60007292050466
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 13 November 2022, Bolot Temirov, prominent media worker subject to repeated judicial harassment, had his passport cancelled by investigative authorities preventing him from leaving the country in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.