Censorship Kazakhstan – ACCA

Kazakhstan: Journalist was convicted for filming a government motorcade

ACCA — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:01:45 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: The Nazarbayev Foundation sued journalists for publishing about ex-presidents’ billions.

ACCA — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:10:21 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: unidentified persons beat a journalist

ACCA — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 09:29:08 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: authorities want to limit independent election observation

ACCA — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:33:47 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: Court bans media from covering journalist’s trial

ACCA — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:19:08 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: journalists convicted in 2016 fully acquitted

ACCA — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:02:34 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: minister bans cartoon over same-sex love propaganda

ACCA — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 11:33:54 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: Journalist threatened for the post about policeman’s son’s wedding

ACCA — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 10:25:42 +0000

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 […]

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Kazakhstan: opposition journalist arrested while receiving a “bribe”

ACCA — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 10:20:40 +0000

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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Kazakhstan: judges acquitted a friend of the state adviser of the republic

ACCA — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:32:50 +0000

Interesting decisions were made by the Kazakh Themis regarding blogger Elmar Khusainov, who insulted and slandered another blogger, Alzhan Ismagulov. According to the victim most likely this happened because Khusainov is a friend of the state secretary of the republic Yerlan Karin. This story began in February 2021. Ismagulov then participated in the trial of […]

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