Committee to Protect Journalists called state authority to drop all charges against Kazakh journalist Natalya Sadykova
1 april 2014
April 01, 2014
The Committee to Protect Journalists (New York) has made a statement on proofless charges against a Kazakh journalist Natalya Sadykova. It stated, that Kazakh authorities should drop all charges against a Kazakh journalist who has been accused of libel in connection with a story she has denied writing and called to stop persecuting critical journalists.
"Kazakh authorities' desire to suppress "Respublika" and harass its journalists has taken on new dimensions with these false criminal accusations", CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognyanova said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (New York) has made a statement on proofless charges against a Kazakh journalist Natalya Sadykova. It stated, that Kazakh authorities should drop all charges against a Kazakh journalist who has been accused of libel in connection with a story she has denied writing and called to stop persecuting critical journalists.
"Kazakh authorities' desire to suppress "Respublika" and harass its journalists has taken on new dimensions with these false criminal accusations", CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognyanova said.
