15 August 1997 A Bishkek municipal court reversed sev-eral rulings against journalists from the opposition weekly Res Publica. The court over-turned convictions in a criminal libel case against an editor and a former editor who were found guilty of insulting and libeling the direc-tor of a state-owned gold-mining company. They had each been fined $115 and barred from practicing journalism […]
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