Editor-in-chief of media website www.guljan.org Guljan Ergalieva requests protection from lawlesness of local authority and courts
20 december 2012
December 20, 2012
On December 20, 2012 editor-in-chief of media website www.guljan.org and new printed matter "ADAM reader’s" Guljan Ergalieva has appealed to the civil society and state structures:
Appeal
I am Guljan Ergalieva, editor-in-chief of media website www.guljan.org and new printed matter "ADAM reader’s", I am writing to let you know that from December 05, 2012 I am under hard pressure of Kazakhstan's state authority, it threatens extermination of our media resources without legal basis.
The media website www.guljan.org is appeared in the Internet from June 2011; it received a wide viewership (in particular, an average of twenty thousands per day). Our website is banned to publish materials, according to suit of District Prosecutor's Office of Almaty and judgement of court of Almaty.
The publication of first issue of weekly"ADAM reader’s" which has a legal license of Ministry of Press and Information, it was planned for December 21, 2012, was blocked by some public services as a method of the confidential pressure upon heads of printing houses of Almaty they were obliged to deny printing of our weekly.
I want to place on record that ban on functioning of the website www.guljan.org has illegal basis; I was punished by a fine in amount of twenty monthly assesment indicies, according to judgement of Medeu District Court on February 06, 2012 for administrative violation (in particular, agitation and participation in unauthorized meeting. Ten months later, General Prosecutor's Office of Bostandyk District charges me with the same violation, as a result of it court had to suspend function of the website for three months.
It is obvious that there was a given occasion which has been farfetched and illegal one, my call to participation in rally as a citizen, concerning shooting of civilians by police in Janaozen; it was not connected with rights and obligations of the media website.
I want to place on record that obstruction of issue of our weekly "ADAM reader’s" as a method of illegal pressure upon printing houses; it has no either false grounds. It is a fact of prosecution of the independent media in violation of article 20 of law "On Prohibition of Censorship" of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and illegal abuse of power by local authority.
I have my own version of these prosecutions. I believe that it is connected with professional activity as a head of independent editions which publish information and investigations on corruption and other criminal activity of representatives of higher echelon of power of the Republic of Kazakhstan".
G. Ergalieva asks non-governmental organizations to provide with legal assistance; Akorda shall suppress lawlessness of the local authority and courts, towards website www.guljan.org and weekly "ADAM reader’s".
Contact information: email info@ guljan.org; tel., +7 (727) 291-08-56; 293-82-45.
On December 20, 2012 editor-in-chief of media website www.guljan.org and new printed matter "ADAM reader’s" Guljan Ergalieva has appealed to the civil society and state structures:
Appeal
I am Guljan Ergalieva, editor-in-chief of media website www.guljan.org and new printed matter "ADAM reader’s", I am writing to let you know that from December 05, 2012 I am under hard pressure of Kazakhstan's state authority, it threatens extermination of our media resources without legal basis.
The media website www.guljan.org is appeared in the Internet from June 2011; it received a wide viewership (in particular, an average of twenty thousands per day). Our website is banned to publish materials, according to suit of District Prosecutor's Office of Almaty and judgement of court of Almaty.
The publication of first issue of weekly"ADAM reader’s" which has a legal license of Ministry of Press and Information, it was planned for December 21, 2012, was blocked by some public services as a method of the confidential pressure upon heads of printing houses of Almaty they were obliged to deny printing of our weekly.
I want to place on record that ban on functioning of the website www.guljan.org has illegal basis; I was punished by a fine in amount of twenty monthly assesment indicies, according to judgement of Medeu District Court on February 06, 2012 for administrative violation (in particular, agitation and participation in unauthorized meeting. Ten months later, General Prosecutor's Office of Bostandyk District charges me with the same violation, as a result of it court had to suspend function of the website for three months.
It is obvious that there was a given occasion which has been farfetched and illegal one, my call to participation in rally as a citizen, concerning shooting of civilians by police in Janaozen; it was not connected with rights and obligations of the media website.
I want to place on record that obstruction of issue of our weekly "ADAM reader’s" as a method of illegal pressure upon printing houses; it has no either false grounds. It is a fact of prosecution of the independent media in violation of article 20 of law "On Prohibition of Censorship" of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and illegal abuse of power by local authority.
I have my own version of these prosecutions. I believe that it is connected with professional activity as a head of independent editions which publish information and investigations on corruption and other criminal activity of representatives of higher echelon of power of the Republic of Kazakhstan".
G. Ergalieva asks non-governmental organizations to provide with legal assistance; Akorda shall suppress lawlessness of the local authority and courts, towards website www.guljan.org and weekly "ADAM reader’s".
Contact information: email info@ guljan.org; tel., +7 (727) 291-08-56; 293-82-45.
