Aleksandr Aleksandrov

A cameraman who previously worked for the Kyrgyzstani media outlet Kloop.

On 17 September 2025, former Kloop camera operators Zhoomart Duulatov and Alexander Alexandrov were sentenced to five years in a general-regime penal colony. Two accountants who were also defendants in the case received three-year probation sentences. All four were found guilty under the article on calls for mass unrest over five videos with which neither the camera operators nor the accountants had any involvement. All five videos were published by investigative journalist Bolot Temirov on the Temirov Live YouTube channel. Temirov had repeatedly stated that he did not know the former Kloop camera operators or the accountants and had no connection with them.

2020s

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The Final Statement

‘When I was detained, all my electronic devices were seized during the search. If there had been anything on them, I think it would have been included in the case file.’

Your Honour, I fully support my lawyers. I believe that my guilt has not been proven. When I was detained, all my electronic devices were seized during the search. If there had been anything on them, I think it would have been included in the case file. But nothing was found because there was nothing in the case file. And I state that I have nothing to do with these videos. I do not know Bolot Temirov.

I saw these videos for the first time in my life yesterday, just as you did. I have nothing to do with them: I did not edit them, put them together, publish them, or write a script for them–I am not involved with them in any way.

I ask you, Your Honour, to take these circumstances into account, make a fair decision, and deliver a just verdict.

Pervomaisky District Court, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
17 September 2025.
Source: Video recording from the courtroom provided by the Kloop editorial team.
Read more about the case: Kloop.
Photo: Kloop / Telegram