Ulugbek Babakulov, a Kyrgyz journalist, is facing a public campaign for publishing nationalist comments taken from Kyrgyz social media. Source: Youtube.
This article originally appeared in Russian at Fergana News, a leading source of information on Central Asia. We are grateful for their permission to translate and republish it here.
On 27 May, Kyrgyzstan’s main television channel ran an eight-minute item with the provocative title of “Fireraisers”. The programme accused Ulugbek Babakulov, a correspondent for our news agency, of inciting racial hatred. It then went on to call Fergana “tendentious”, and demand that our site be blocked in Kyrgyzstan.
