Affiliated media: PolitKlinika, Online publication

Incident date: March 3, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: kloop.kg

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

Additional information:

On the night of March, 2 the unknown people entered the office of 'PolitKlinika'. They seized the hard drive and journalists' notebooks. Since the editorial office did not have CCTV cameras, it is unclear what the burglars might have looked like and how they ransacked the office. “We cannot link [the break into office] with any articles, but we always conduct journalistic investigations,” explained Dilbar Alimova, editor-in-chief of the publication. For example, journalists wrote about the property of the now-former mayor of Bishkek Albek Ibraimov.