Duulatov Zhoomart

A camera operator who previously worked for the Kyrgyzstani media outlet Kloop.

On 17 September 2025, former Kloop camera operators Zhoomart Duulatov and Alexander Aleksandrov 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 public disorder over five videos with which neither the camera operators nor the accountants had any involvement. All five videos had been published by investigative journalist Bolot Temirov on his 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

‘I hope you will reach a humane decision and deliver justice, Your Honour.’

I would like to say that I have never had any dealings with Bolot Temirov or his team in my life. I do not know any of them, have never met them in person, have never corresponded with them, and have never written anything to them.

Given the absence of the elements of a crime in my actions, and the lack of evidence that I ever worked on these videos, watched them, or edited them, I ask you to find me not guilty of this offence and acquit me, Your Honour.

I hope you will reach a humane decision and deliver justice, Your Honour.

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