The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is concerned about the search of the office of 24.kg news agency in Kyrgyzstan. The organization stated on X social media.
As noted, the Committee has contacted the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression with a request to raise the matter with Kyrgyz authorities.
Employees of the State Committee for National Security came to the office of 24.kg news agency on January 16 at about 11 a.m. General Director Asel Otorbaeva, Editors-in-Chief Anton Lymar and Makhinur Niyazova were taken for interrogation.
Equipment and personal mobile phones of employees were confiscated.
The SCNS said that the search at 24.kg news agency was conducted as part of a criminal case under the article «Propaganda of War» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.
