On October 26, Kyrgyz authorities blocked the website of Radio Azattyk, the Kyrgyz branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for a period of two months. The reason was a story about new clashes on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, in which dozens of people died and thousands were forced to temporarily evacuate. Two days ago, Azattyk’s bank accounts were also frozen without clear explanation — by order of the Kyrgyz secret police, Azattyk’s management learned.

A Radio Azattyk reporter covers a protest against corruption in the Kyrgyz customs service in Bishkek in December 2019. (Photo: Gulzhan Turdubayeva/Radio Azattyk)

The United Nations has paid out tens of millions of dollars to Syrian companies linked to war profiteers, human rights abusers, and sanctioned figures linked to the Bashar Al-Assad regime, a new study shows.

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A Florida judge sent Mexican scientist Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes to jail in June on the charge of being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, reporters have discovered he was involved in discussions with the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on plans for an ambitious railway project.

Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes, February 2020. (Photo: Archivo Agencia/EL UNIVERSAL)

Take a deep dive into how undercover investigators helped law enforcement to bring down one of the top players in Vietnam's wildlife trafficking underworld.

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Kyrgyzstan’s government, long known as Central Asia’s most democratic, is becoming less and less transparent — and the country’s once-active civil society appears unconcerned.

(Photo: Alina Pechenkina for Kloop)