In Aktobe, the judge of the specialized inter-district court for administrative cases, Esdauir Muratkan, by his decision found the correspondent of the information portal Nur.kz Ardak Yerubayeva guilty of disobeying the police. The collision between the journalist and the police took place on August 31. Ardak Yerubayeva tried to photograph the government motorcade of the […]
On July 29, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Foundation, the first president of Kazakhstan, filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Maryland against the American Journalism Development Network (JDN), headquartered in Baltimore. According to the lawsuit, the Nazarbayev Foundation did not like the JDN publication, which revealed that the first president of Kazakhstan owns a multibillion-dollar […]
In Ust-Kamenogorsk, five unknown people attacked Anton Knyazev, a journalist from the Road Control information portal. It should be noted that this is the second attack on the journalists of the portal in the last month. Anton Knyazev was attacked on the night of August 3-4 in one of the shops in the city of […]
In Kazakhstan, a draft of amendments and additions to some constitutional laws, primarily to the law on elections, has been submitted for public discussion. A number of amendments have already caused negative reviews both from foreign human rights organizations and from the citizens of the country themselves. For example, on July 24, Almaty resident Daniyar […]
The head of the department of justice of the Kostanay region, Amir Umarov, started a lawsuit with journalist Alexandra Sergazinova, who accused him of falsifying documents in the interests of the secretary of the regional bar association, Togzhan Agatayeva. At the first court session, the judge of the Specialized Administrative Court of Kostanay Sabyr Tazhkenov […]
The Supreme Court of the republic fully acquitted the chairman of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan, Seitkazy Mataev, and his son Aset (head of the KazTAG news agency), who were convicted in 2016 for allegedly embezzling state funds while fulfilling a state order. On January 14, 2016, the Anti-Corruption Service of Kazakhstan charged Seitkazy […]
Another scandal in Kazakhstan: Minister of Culture and Sports Dauren Abayev has banned the new American computer-animated science fiction film Buzz Lightyear, created by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures, from distribution. The reason was a one-and-a-half-second kiss scene between two women. Here it should be noted that one of the first against “Buzz Lightyear” was […]
Last week, Mikhail Kozachkov, a correspondent for the Kazakhstani newspaper Vremya, posted on his Telegram channel a video clip filmed at the wedding of Nurlan Amanbek, the son of the head of the Almaty administrative police. After the publication of this post, the journalist began to receive threats from unknown persons. “If it was Amanbek […]
While the Kazakh authorities from the high stands of the capital are announcing a course towards “New Kazakhstan”, in the regions of the country they continue to intimidate and eliminate objectionable journalists using the old proven methods. ACCA has already reported on threats against well-known journalist Mikhail Kozachkov, who specializes in investigating corruption scandals, after […]
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