Plus report from Kyrgyzstan and Banned Books Week

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Friday, 09 October 2020


** "Who is going to try to seize power?" Caroline Eden talks to Index from Kyrgyzstan
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Kyrgyzstan has been plunged into chaos this week after parliamentary election results on Monday led to widescale protests throughout the country, which have seen the prime minister resign as a result.

Protests began as soon as the results were announced and quickly became violent, with protesters storming the parliament building and setting parts of it on fire. “By 9 o’clock there were the sounds of explosions and grenades,” said journalist and writer Caroline Eden in our interview with her, who has been watching the protests unfold from the capital city Bishkek. Listen to her interview here ([link removed]) .
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** What you missed from Banned Books Week
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[link removed] the 2020 Banned Books Week comes to a close, we have a chance to reflect on the impact the initiative has had over the past 38 years, and consider the work we still need to do to ensure everyone is free to read.

There is still much work to be done, writes Leah Cross ([link removed]) .
[link removed] July, Index on Censorship held a virtual round table to discuss what measures can be taken to protect journalists in Europe against strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps). These are vexatious legal threats and actions taken out by powerful people and are intended not to succeed in court but to saddle critics with prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, and nerve-wracking legal processes.

Read our new report Breaking the Silence ([link removed]) on how journalists might regain their voices.
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