New York, NY — The director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Joel Simon, wrote Sept. 10 to Kyrgyzstan’s Acting Minister of Justice Almaz Aiylchiev urging him to protect the rights of journalist Baktygul Chynybaeva.
Chynybaeva, one of Kyrgyzstan’s most renowned journalists, has experienced extraordinary threats and harassment, including most recently a video falsely accusing her and her husband of being spies.
Chynybaeva was named a Knight Press Freedom Fellow in the fall of 2025. The program, which supports journalists at risk from around the world, is administered by the JPI. Chynybaeva spent her fellowship year at the University of Michigan, where she was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow in 2024-25, and where she is currently pursuing her MA in International and Regional Studies.
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