Affiliated media: Temirov Live, Office of the media outlet

Incident date: January 22, 2022

Attack type:

• Confiscation/seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: 24.kg

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

Additional information:

Police officers and the Drug Trafficking Combat Service officers, accompanied by special forces, arrived at the office of the investigative journalists. Law enforcers searched and seized equipment, including journalists' work computers and servers for surveillance cameras installed in the office. The employees told the media that the law enforcers twisted the arms of the editor Bolot Temirov and put him on the floor. He is allegedly suspected of a drug-related crime. Aktilek Kaparov, the media journalist links the police visit to Temirov Live's professional activities and the latest investigation into the fuel business of the family of Kamchybek Tashiev, head of the State Committee of National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic.