Affiliated media: Kaktus.media, Online news outlet
Incident date: February 1, 2022
Attack type:
- Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Radio Azattyk
Location: Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek
Additional information:
The Prosecutor's Office of the Pervomaisky district of Bishkek initiated a criminal case in connection with the publication of a news article on January 27 on the website Kaktus.media about the events at the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The agency will investigate legal assessment. «The article contains inaccurate information that the military personnel of the Kyrgyz Republic were the first to start shooting, thereby provoking the Republic of Tajikistan. The prosecutor's office of the Pervomaisky district of Bishkek initiated a criminal case under Article 407 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic (propaganda of war, i.e. dissemination of views, ideas or appeals in any form to cause aggression of one country against another or unleash a military conflict)», - says the statement.