How "Uralsk week" was "neutralized"
16 december 2018
In the morning of December 16 correspondents of the “Uralsk week” Raul Uporov and Maria Melnikova were detained on the street. Raul was seemingly taken to the police for investigative measures on a case under art. 405 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Organization and participation in activity of public or religious association or other organization after court decision on prohibition of their activity or liquidation in connection with carrying out by them the extremism or terrorism), the reasons for Maria’s detention are unknown.The editor-in-chief of "Uralsk Week", Lukpan Akhmedyarov, and the publisher Tamara Yeslyamova are in their apartments, and the police is watching the entranceways.
