· July, 2011

Stories about Kyrgyzstan from July, 2011

Kyrgyzstan: Government Bans News Websites from the Election Campaign

  28 July 2011

Ahead of the presidential elections to be held in Kyrgyzstan on 30 October, 2011, the Central Elections Committee (CEC) came out with a controversial decision, barring web-based news media from taking part in the campaign. Eleven news sites were denied accreditation to inform voters on the pre-election developments.