Report: Kyrgyzstan government hijacking news websites

Boing Boing reader and journalist Hans Henrik in Denmark says,

I published a disturbing story on my blog today about the ongoing online war between the government and the opposition in Kyrgyzstan.

Apparently the new government in Kyrgyzstan are hijacking opposition newspapers sites and are now pointing their URLs to government friendly news sites.

It is still a mystery what is going on in Kyrgyzstan. The newspapers in the country are nearly all government controlled or friendly towards the government in such a way that they can not be trusted when covering the ongoing dispute between the opposition and the newly elected government.

The situation gets more blurred by the lack of foreign correspondents and public access to the Internet in Kyrgyzstan. This means no bloggers or eyewitness.

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