Journalist Shot Dead In Southern Kyrgyzstan
October 24, 2007
Alisher Saipov in January 2007 (RFE/RL)
articles critical of neighboring Uzbekistan's ruling administration has been slain
in Kyrgyzstan.
Twenty-five-year-old Alisher Saipov appeared to have been shot to death. His body was found today in downtown Osh, which lies in a heavily ethnic-Uzbek region of southern Kyrgyzstan, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reported.
Saipov was editor of the "Siyosat" (Politics) newspaper.