Kyrgyzstan: media worker's deportation upheld in appeal (Update)
Event- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Initial Date
- Sep 12, 2023
- Event Description
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court on September 12 rejected an appeal filed by prominent investigative journalist Bolot Temirov against a court decision to deport him to Russia for "illegally obtaining a Kyrgyz passport." Temirov, who has extensively reported about corruption among government officials in Kyrgyzstan, was deported to Moscow in November. Temirov, who held Kyrgyz and Russian passports, has insisted the probe against him was launched after he published the results of his investigation suggesting corruption among top officials in the Central Asian nation.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Deportation
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of movement
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 42.88437177439279
Longitude: 74.57132847622059
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 September 2023, media worker Bolot Temirov, had his deportation order upheld by the Supreme Court upon appeal pursuant to false forgery charges in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.