The district prosecutor's office filed a petition with the court to recognize the materials of "Kloop," as well as the content of Temirov Live and "Ayt Ayt Dese," along with their leaders Rinat Tukhvatshin and Bolot Temirov, as extremist. The court granted this request.
However, it remains unclear which specific content was recognized as extremist, as neither the court's decision nor the conducted examinations contain a list of specific publications.
It is worth noting that Judge Cholponai Umetalieva sentenced the videographers Joomart Duulatov and Alexander Alexandrov to five years in a general regime colony. Two accountants involved in the case received three years of probation.
All defendants were found guilty of inciting riots.
The editorial office of "Kloop" claimed that this punishment was a result of five videos to which neither the operators nor the accountants were related. These investigations were prepared by journalist Bolot Temirov for his YouTube channel Temirov Live. Temirov also emphasized that he is not familiar with and is not connected to these operators and accountants, adding that all content is created by him independently.
Experts did not find any direct calls for riots in these videos.
International human rights organizations condemned the guilty verdict.
On November 25, 2025, the sentence for the former employees of "Kloop" was changed from five years in a colony to three years of probation, allowing them to be released directly in the courtroom.
"Kloop Media" is an online publication in Kyrgyzstan, founded in 2007 by Rinat Tukhvatshin and Bektur Iskender. In 2023, the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit for the liquidation of the public fund Kloop Media, accusing it of failing to meet its statutory goals. The editorial office characterized the lawsuit as politically motivated. In February 2024, the court granted the lawsuit, and the organization was liquidated as a legal entity in Kyrgyzstan.
