Uzbek reporter shot in Kyrgyzstan
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Alisher Saipov, an Uzbek journalist critical of President Karimov, is shot dead in the Kyrgyz town of Osh.
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The United States on Thursday called on Kyrgyzstan to defend media freedom and solve the murder of an independent Uzbek reporter who was killed on Wednesday in a Kyrgyz city.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Medical officials in the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan confirmed the prime minister was poisoned after receiving death threats but said they have not yet identified the toxin.
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A report by the International Crisis Group says Uzbek security services were behind the October murder of a prominent journalist.
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A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death Saturday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.
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A gunbattle broke out Wednesday between traffic police and a Defense Ministry unit in the Chechen capital, leaving at least three people dead and five wounded, prosecutors and police witnesses said.
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BISHKEK, Jan 29 (IPS) - The central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has  adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of  life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code  replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad  with long prison terms.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of The war in rebel Chechnya, was found shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, news agencies reported.
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Kuwaiti authorities have detained a  journalist working for Al Arabiya television for reporting a  shootout between police and militants which was later denied by  the Gulf state, the TV channel said Friday.
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Text of report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  Bishkek, 7 September: An era of totalitarian and dictatorship regime in the field of mass media is coming in to Kyrgyzstan, MP Melis Eshimkanov, member of For Reforms movement, said at a news conference [in Bishkek] today.
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Amnesty International urged Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to investigate thoroughly the murder of an independent journalist which it said would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
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Excerpt from report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  A committee has been set up in [northwestern] Kyrgyzstan's Talas Region to protect the rights of detained participants in the protest campaign against the development of the Dzheruy gold mine.
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Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a local journalist in north-west Pakistan, police say.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital
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At least one suspect took an unknown number of hostages Tuesday at the Mexican consulate, and a TV news camera later showed a man apparently being shot as he held a woman by the neck.
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Masked gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead a journalist in northwestern Pakistan, police said.
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A television cameraman working for The Associated Press was shot to death by insurgents while covering clashes Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, police said.