Kyrgyzstan authorities have arrested a TV station Director over comments over Ukraine. Kyrgyzstan is known for its affiliation to Russia. From the Committee to Protect Journalists. Here is an excerpt:

On the afternoon of Thursday, March 3, the privately owned TV and radio broadcaster Next TV’s accounts on Facebook and Telegram published posts covering claims by a former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence agency that Kyrgyzstan had secretly agreed to provide military support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

At about 7:30 p.m. that evening, plainclothes officers with the State Committee of National Security (SCNS), the country’s internal security agency, raided the station’s office in Bishkek, the capital, confiscated its broadcasting equipment, sealed the outlet’s studio and journalists’ offices, and detained Duishenbiev, according to news reports and Next TV journalist Perizat Saitburkhan, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview.

The SCNS said that it had opened a criminal investigation into the outlet for “inciting interethnic hatred,” according to news reports and a SCNS press release reviewed by CPJ. 

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