Affiliated media: 3 TV channel , TV channel

Incident date: June 7, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Journalists' Facebook page

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Talas

Additional information:

Unknown persons set on fire the office of the independent TV channel. According to journalists, early in the morning, someone broke the office window with a brick and threw a Molotov cocktail. The chief of the TV channel Zhannat Toktosunova said the arson was "deliberate and planned to intimidate journalists." During the fire, all the broadcasting equipment was burned down. Earlier, the authorities made attempts to close the channel, but it continues to operate.