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Special Rapporteur On the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Mr. Frank La Rue Subject: Kazakhstan tightens legislative restrictions on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and...

May 06, 2014 Journalists of Almaty commemorated World Press Freedom Day in cinema "Caesar". There, they could see a video-clip about attacks on journalists. The video-clip was devoted to libel in the draft of Criminal Code of the Republic of...

May 05, 2014 On May 05, 2014 journalists of the newspaper "Uralskaya Nedelya" ("Ural's Week") to commemorate the World Press Freedom Day hold a campaign "Kitchen conversations" in the heart of Uralsk. In particular, journalists made decorations which...

April 30, 2014 On April 30, 2014 editorial staff of the newspaper "Assandi-Times" (it was shut down, according to court ruling) has announced the functioning of new Internet-portal "Nakanyne.KZ" (http://nakanynekz.url.ph) at a press conference in...

April 28, 2014 At the moment, society seeks for liberal changes to draft of Criminal code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, code in force had also, odious article "Dissemination of misleading information", carried penalty up to ten years of imprisonment....

April 24, 2014 On April 24, 2014 Specialized Interdistrict Court of Criminal Cases (West Kazakhstan Oblast) held Former Director of Children's Youth Sports School of Horse Sport Nurlan Takhambetov in organization of attempted homicide of journalist of...