No need to apologize. The appeal complaint of "Exclusive" partially satisfied

On May 17, the appellate collegium of the Astana city court made a decision: "Exclusive" doesn’t have to apologize to the plaintiffs.
"The court's decision remains unchanged. The demand to bring an apology in the form of video messages on specified channels is excluded from the court ruling. The appeals of the plaintiffs and defendants are partially satisfied," the resolution states.

As it was reported, LLP "Publishing house "Exclusive" (Astana) was named as a co-defendant in a claim regarding the protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation related to certain articles about an inheritance. The protagonist of the articles informed reporters that his adversaries were linked to the organized crime group of Wild Arman. This statement led to the lawsuit.
The court ordered three defendants, including the "Exclusive", to refute the published information, pay 200,000 tenge jointly to each of the three plaintiffs, compensate for the expenses on representatives in court (920,000 tenge in total), and issue an apology to the plaintiffs in the form of video messages.

On April 22, the "Adil soz" Foundation published a legal review of this situation, in which it emphasized that "the demand to compel the defendant to publicly apologize cannot be reviewed by the court because such a method of protecting civil rights is not provided for by law."