In Kyrgyzstan, blocked the Fergana

In Kyrgyzstan, blocked the Fergana

In Kyrgyzstan, blocked access to the Site Information Agency Fergana. This Lente.Ru said Chief Editor Daniil Kislov.

According to him, blocking carried out on the instructions of local authorities (government or, perhaps, the General Prosecutor's Office).

Official comments from the leadership of the republic has not yet been reported.

Block access to the Fergana previously demanded Kyrgyz parliament. In June 2011 they adopted a relevant resolution. Parliamentarians accused the editor Fergana in publishing provocative articles, as well as in the one-sided coverage of the June 2010 massacre.

Glavred edition then expressed the opinion that the decision of the deputies took personal hostility to the site. He noted that this approach post-revolutionary Kyrgyzstan may be among the states that journalists and human rights are considered enemies of the Internet.

Meanwhile, in early February, the prosecutor general of Kyrgyzstan Salyanova Aida, speaking in Parliament, claimed that the block Fergana power failed. We turned to the JSC 'Kyrgyztelecom' to block publication of 'Ferghana.ru reported' ( Ferghana.ru reported it is the former name of the agency, it is now simply called Fergana – note Lenty.Ru), but we were told that this site can not be blocked due to lack of technical capacity, – quoted her K-News.

Fergana repeatedly published critical articles on the Kyrgyz leadership, as well as took place in the country revolutions. During the June 2010 events in Kyrgyzstan, the agency reflected the positions of both sides (both Kyrgyz and Uzbeks). This angered the Kyrgyz authorities, who tried to blame the conflict on the local Uzbek community (despite the fact that most victims of the June events are Uzbeks). The Agency has also covered the story in detail the human rights activist Azimzhan Askarov – living in Kyrgyzstan, ethnic Uzbek who was accused of involvement in the riots and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Dissatisfaction with the Kyrgyz authorities summoned not only journalists who disagree with the official point of view of the June events. After an international commission investigating the massacre, noted that the Kyrgyz authorities have not fulfilled their obligations to protect citizens (although not recognized those events as genocide, as demanded by the Uzbek side), Kyrgyz deputies saw in it a threat to national security . Head of the Commission Kimmo Kiljunen official Bishkek declared persona non grata.

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