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Chief Medical Officer of Children's Hospital of South Kazakhstan Oblast has filed suit on KZT five millions

21 august 2012
August 21, 2012

There was a trial in Abay District Court of South Kazakhstan Oblast on August 20, 2012. Chief Medical Officer of Children's Hospital of South Kazakhstan Oblast Anuarbek Maymakov has filed a suit about protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against newspaper "Temirkazyk-Oy", journalists Khabiddin Rakhmanberdiev and Anar Suleyeva. The charges originated from article "The death of a young girl was caused by neglect of doctors", which was published in the newspaper"Temirkazyk-Oy" № 10 (14) in May. Anuarbek Maymakov thinks that they should apologize to him and doctors and recover KZT5000000 (1USD=148.99) as moral damage compensation.

On a trial representatives of defendant said that the article bore no relation to oblast children's hospital; they demanded plaintiff call the concrete surnames of doctors and provide the defamed words and word-expressions.

In addition, the defendants stressed that neither Suleyeva nor Rakhmanberdiyev are authors of this article, according to the law "On Mass Media" they can not be responsible for opinions and ideas expressed in the article.
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