Kunduz Zholdubayeva

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Archa Media, Journalist, Host

Incident date: December 7, 2023

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: 24.kg

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

Additional information:

Journalist and host of the YouTube channel Archa Media Kunduz Zholdubayeva told what she was interrogated at the Pervomaysky District Department of Internal Affairs. The interrogation was conducted at the request of MP Nadira Narmatova. She filed a complaint with the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take action against Kunduz, as well as a participant in the live broadcast — Makhabat Tadzhibek kyzy, the wife of investigative journalist Bolot Temirov. The complainant accused them of «statements defaming her honour and dignity». Earlier in November, the YouTube channel Archa Media published a programme about possible links between some MPs and officials and Raim Matraimov, a former customs officer convicted of corruption, and Kamchi Kolbayev, a major criminal mastermind and drug lord recently liquidated by the authorities.