Kyrgyzstan’s leading investigative journalism outlet Kloop to be liquidated. Kloop began publishing investigations in 2010 when a group of its teenage journalists uncovered how the son of the Kyrgyz president gained illegal financial control over the country’s largest telecommunications operator. Experts invited by the court to testify say that these and other stories have contributed to a bad mood and even nervous breakdowns among the population. According to a psychiatrist whom prosecutors invited to testify during a previous hearing on February 5, people wi
Source: Written by Metin Kazama, OCCRP, 2024-02-11; https://www.occrp.org/en/daily//en/daily/18462-kyrgyzstan-court-shuts-down-occrp-member-center-kloop