About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/6d68f9f86a93f3055e96139f22d414575b51daa6521dfdc6bbad2d00     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Hundreds of Kyrgyz on Monday protested against a draft law they say will hit press and internet freedoms in Central Asia's most democratic country. The bill, which President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has yet to sign into law, would force websites to remove information deemed fake by a government organ without a court order being necessary. The draft legislation against "manipulation of information" sailed through ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's pro-government parliament last week, despite the MP who proposed it receiving thousands of critical comments on Facebook. Journalists have said that the law will be used to force them to remove anti-corruption investigations from their websites as the republic of more than six million prepares for parliamentary elections in the autumn. The mostly young protesters who marched towards the country's main house of government demanded Jeenbekov not sign the bill into law and that initiator Gulshat Asylbayeva resign her parliamentary mandate. "For 30 years we've been living in a country where the (only thing) we can be proud of is our nature and freedom of speech," said demonstrator Beksultan Usenaliyev. "They are taking away that freedom," he told AFP, also protesting parliament's voting for "anti-people laws" during the pandemic when citizens are "sitting at home, trying to avoid contact". Kyrgyzstan is less authoritarian than its neighbours China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan but watchdogs say freedoms have been eroded in recent years. In January, investigative reporter Bolot Temirov was beaten up by a trio of assailants shortly after his fact-checking website reported on the cost of clothes and jewellery worn by the wife of a former customs official. The ex-customs deputy chief Rayimbek Matraimov is widely believed to be one of Kyrgyzstan's most powerful men and a major campaign financer despite holding no formal position. Matraimov figured prominently in a series of reports published last year by local media in collaboration with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The reports brought hundreds onto the street in similar rallies last year. video-tol-cr/ma/jxb
schema:headline
  • Kyrgyz protest against draft law on misinformation
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software