"DAT" is on trial again

February 5, 2018

Court hearing began in the Zhetysu District Court of Almaty on the suit of Dilyara Kaydarova, director of the Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology, to the owner of the newspaper "Public position" Dara Info, LLP, acting editor-in-chief Bakytgul Makimbai, journalist Syrym Datov and an employee of the Scientific Research Institute of Oncology and Radiology Shnargul Talaeva.

The plaintiff believes that the defendants humiliated, inslulted and demonized her in the untrue article "Cancer Harassment of the Doctor" ("Public position", October 26, 2017) aimed at reducing the "social significance" of her name as a qualified doctor, academician and manager.

“The phrase "cancer harassment" (...) assumes that I violated the law and ethical norms while performing of my duties as the director of the Institute", the claim says.

As Dilyara Kaidarova believs, the author of the article and the editorial board accused her of corruption in the form of harassment of the employee of the institute Shnargul Talaeva by using agents acting against her.

The plaintiff asked the court to compel the defendants to publish a refutation of the disputed information, to bring public apology and to compensate moral damage in the amount of 10 million tenge.

In order to secure the claim, Kaidarova asked to seize the defendants’ property ".

The court denied that request.