The OSCE reacted to the demonstrative detention of a well-known in Kyrgyzstan investigative journalist Bolot Temirov and an akyn (poet) Bolot Nazarov.
Representatives of the organization posted on Twitter that they were concerned about this incident, as well as seizure of equipment from the Temirov Live office.
Police officers accompanied by special forces soldiers came to Temirov Live office in Bishkek on January 22. They detained Bolot Temirov and took him to the capital’s Department of Internal Affairs.
It became known later that the colleague of Bolot Temirov, Bolot Nazarov, was also detained. The court released both detainees under the written pledge not to leave country.
Journalists associate the visit of police officers with the professional activities of the Temirov Live team and the latest investigation into the fuel business of the family of the head of the State Committee for National Security Kamchybek Tashiev.
