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Gulmira Birzhanova, Head of the Media Qoldau Legal Service at the Legal Media Center Public Foundation, reported that Facebook had suspended access to the account of Diana Okremova, Director of the Legal Media Center Public Foundation.

The OSCE election observation mission published an interim report on preparations for the Kurultai elections, assessing the state of the media landscape, the level of political pluralism, and the prevalence of self-censorship in Kazakhstan.

A press conference was held in Almaty to discuss the situation of political prisoner Duman Mukhametkarim*. The journalist’s lawyer, Galym Nurpeisov, said his client’s health had deteriorated significantly and stressed that his actions in prison were not suicide attempts, but a form of protest against violations of his rights.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — On 18 February 2026, the final roundtable of the Solution Journalism Lab II project took place. The project, implemented by the International Foundation for the Protection of Freedom of Speech “Adil Soz” with the support of the British Embassy, aimed to promote journalistic work that goes beyond identifying problems and instead offers concrete, evidence-based mechanisms for addressing systemic challenges.

As a result of an incident on July 21st, which appeared to be unauthorized access to journalist Oleg Gusev's personal Telegram account, the SIM card he had replaced on Beeline's recommendation stopped working. A similar incident on July 27th also resulted in the deactivation of the new SIM card (USIM, 4G).