Kyrgyzstan - Call for humane treatment for jailed journalists and respect for press charter

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the way the authorities are treating Ulugbek Abdusalomov, a newspaper editor based in the southern city of Jalal-Abad who has been held since June's inter-ethnic violence and who is currently hospitalised with serious cardiac problems. He is being kept handcuffed and under constant police surveillance in the hospital. The editor of the independent Uzbek-language newspaper Diydor, Abdusalomov was arrested on 14 June and was charged on 10 August under (...)

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