Сөз бостандығын қорғау халықаралық қоры
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The International Foundation for Freedom of Speech Protection

Servicemen of portal sportinfo.kz have received threats from unknown persons

1 june 2012
June 01, 2012

Threatening commentaries were placed on the website, after publication of some critical information on situation around Kazakhstan's football on portal sportinfo.kz. On May 23, 24, 25 the telephone of editorial office received threatening calls, which were addressed to editor-in-chief, founders and the staff from unknown persons. They promised to blast the editorial office and kill the whole staff.

The staff of portal believed that there were real threats, addressed to them. Earlier, on March 07, 2012 editor-in-chief of the portal sportinfo.kz Geniy Tulegenov was attacked in editorial office. There was a opening of criminal case by fact of this attack.

Administrators of information portal have examined the most nasty comments. Most of them were received from IP-address from Federation of Football of Kazakhstan.

On June 01, 2012 the community of Internet media outlets has placed an official appeal to Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askhat Daulbayev. The staff of portal sportinfo.kz asked him to solve the problem.
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