{"id":25176,"date":"2011-07-29T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25176"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:53","slug":"kyrgyzstan-government-bans-news-websites-ahead-of-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25176","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan: government bans news websites ahead of election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Central Elections Committee (CEC) has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/07\/28\/kyrgyzstan-government-bans-news-websites-from-the-election-campaign\/\">decided<\/a> to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October presidential election. Eleven news sites have been denied accreditation to inform voters on pre-election developments. While some NGOs have <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/07\/28\/kyrgyzstan-government-bans-news-websites-from-the-election-campaign\/\">claimed<\/a> the move restricts citizens&#8217; access to information, a CEC spokeswoman said, &#8220;the Kyrgyz law on mass media does not regard web-based news agencies as media outlets; that is why they cannot generate revenue from promotion of the candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes just weeks after Kyrgyzstan became the first country in former Soviet Central Asia to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/osce-hails-kyrgyzstans-decision-to-decriminalize-libel-calling-it-a-boost-for-press-freedom\/2011\/07\/19\/gIQAuDpkNI_story.html\">decriminalise<\/a> libel, a move hailed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as a boost for press freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Central Elections Committee (CEC) has\u00a0decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October presidential election. Eleven news sites have been denied accreditation to inform voters on pre-election developments. While some NGOs have claimed the move restricts citizens&#8217; access to information, a CEC spokeswoman said, &#8220;the Kyrgyz law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585,581],"tags":[382,293,208,3553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25188,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions\/25188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}