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The prominent public figure Murat Auezov, president of International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech “Adil Soz” Tamara Kaleyeva and journalist Kenzhe Tatilya on behalf of editorial staff of the newspaper “Central Asia Monitor” wrote open letter. It was connected with arrest of publisher of newspaper “Central Asia Monitor” and Internet-portal Radiotochka.kz Bigeldy Gabdullin.

The editorial staff of newspaper “Ak Zhaiyik” informed that during month its website operated erratically. From time to time, this Internet-resource had DDos-attacks. First of all, there were DDos-attacks from foreign countries that’s why there was necessity to block access for foreign visitors. But, during last days there were DDos-attacks from territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The administration of website should close and debug services of website.

On November 15, 2016 Internet-resource Tengrinews.kz with the reference to National Bureau of Anti-Corruption informed that Bigeldy Gabdullin was suspected of extortion.

From July 05, 2016 inhabitant of PavlodarRuslan Ginatullin was taken into custody. He was charged with incitement of national enmity under article 174 p.1 of Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

There was a wide session of members of Board of Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan on October 25, 2016 in Almaty. Its participants adopted unanimously resolution with regard to the Chairman of Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan S. Matayev