STATISTIC of violations of rights for freedom of expression in Kazakhstan. January-December, 2017
- Court banned the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tribuna/ Sayasi kalam "Zhanbolat Mamay to engage in journalistic activities for three years.
- The editor-in-chief of "CentralAsiaMonitor" and the director of the web-site "Radiotochka" Bigeldy Gabdullin was forced to leave journalism.
- President of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan, President of
the National Press Club, Almaty, Seytkazy Matayev, was released on parole.
CONVICTED, ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS – 16
Threats to
journalists – 2
Akmaral
Shayakhmetova (“Uralskaya Nedelya”, Uralsk)
Attack on journalists – 6
Mirlan
Amanzholov, Aliya Orazai (TC “Kazakhstan-Aktobe”, Aktobe oblast), NUR.KZ
(Aktobe); Aray Temirkhanova and Ilya Rybin, (TC “31 Channel”,
Astana); Ramazan Yesergepov (“Journalists in trouble”, Almaty).
Closure/suspenson of media – 15
including
“Sayasi Kalam. Tribuna”, Almaty (closed
due to the closure of the newspaper’s owner enterprise)
KBS World, ATV ТВ, TV5, Bloomberg, RT Documentary, RT Documentary HD, Russia
Today and «Belarus 24» (did not register their representative offices in the
territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan as it is required by authoritites)
Unjustified blocking
and restriction of access to network editions
–9
Avaaz.org;
http://tribunakz.com/ (Almaty); pana-defenders.info; nethouse.ru; channel of
activist A. Shaigumarov (Uralsk) in Youtube and channel of blogger Ainur
Kurmanov (Almaty) in Youtube; Foreignpolicy.com (USA), problems with access to
social networks WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube on September 2-3
(Internet users associated this with a conflict between employees of the
security company and foreign workers, Indian citizens, occurred on the evening
of September 2); https://wordpress.com
Impending legal journalistic activity - 30
CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS AND CHARGES — 61
Of them in court – 41
From January to December the following guilty verdits were brought - 19:
- public slander and insult - 6 (out of 21 charges)
- Incitement of social, national, tribal, racial, class or religious discord - 10 (of 12)
- extortion - 1
- legalization of money or other property acquired illegally - 1
- failure to comply with a court decision - 1
CIVIL CLIAMS TO MEDIA AND JOURNALISTS – 76;
including
claims and lawsuits on protection of honor, dignity and business reputation - 75
Claimed amounts of compensation for moral damage - 196 million 460 thousand tenge.
Collected compensation for moral damage - 54 mln. 40 th. tenge
Appelants of civil claims to media: civil servants - 20 , Legal entities - 27, citizens - 28
Judgments rendered – 60 (Incl. 22 - in the appeal, in the cassation - 2). Of those in favor of the media and the citizens - 31.
PERSECUTION BY ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER – 5
denials and restrictions in providing socially important information – 177
