Media Watch and Journalism Rights Organisations as Advocates of Press Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Abstract

In the bleak press rights territory of post-Soviet Central Asia, domestic and international nong-overnmental organisations, foreign governments, news outlets, and multinational entities such as the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) and UNESCO monitor constraints on the press. They also protest censorship and decry journalists‘arrests, prosecutions, harassment, and murders.