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Publication of newspaper "Tribuna -Ashyk Alan" is under threat

10 september 2013
September 04, 2013

On September 04, 2013 editorial staff of the newspaper "Tribuna -Ashyk Alan" has published holiday issue, devoted to its first anniversary. At the same day, newspaper's worker Inga Imanbay was called to the Department of Internal Policy of Akimat (District Administration) of Almaty, where they informed about administrative offence, suspended publication of the newspaper for one month. Inga Imanbay explained, that the editorial staff faced to financial problems and it should go into recess. The information on it, was published in issue, prior to recess.

Servicemen of Department of Internal Policy of Akimat (District Administration) of Almaty drew up the protocol of administrative offence. I. Imanbay refused to sign it. Editorial staff was incriminated in commitment of offence under article 342 of Code of Administrative Offence of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on mass media".

According to p.4 "Production, manufacturing, printing and (or) distribution of the media products, as well as communications and materials of the news agency without reassessment in the cases of change of the ownership or its legal form, the name and the name of the media, change the language of publication or broadcast, the distribution territory, the main thematic focus, frequency of issue - entail a fine for officials in the amount of twenty to forty, for the owners of the media, legal entities of small and medium-sized business - in the amount of one hundred to two hundred, for legal entities of a large enterprise - in the amount of eight hundred to a thousand monthly calculation indices with the suspension of issue (broadcast) of the media for up to three months." of article 342 of Code of Administrative Offence of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on mass media".

The administrative proceeding will be held on September 05, 2013.
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