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February 28, 2012 General Prosecutor's Office of Uralsk has instituted administrative proceedings against editorial staff of the newspaper "Uralskaya Nedelya", towards owner of the edition LLP "Journalistkaya Initsiativa" on February 24,...

February 28, 2012 On February 25, 2012 a 61-years-old correspondent of republican newspaper "Adilet" Zharkynbek Seyitnbetuly was beaten near his house the day before in Shymkent. As a result of it he had a concussion of the brain of medium severity...

Film crew of television channel “31 Channel” was attacked On February 16, 2011 film crew of television channel “31 Channel”, journalists Askar Mendybayev, Irene Alimzhanova and camera man Duman Suleymenov attended the maternity hospital № 5 of Almaty...

Pressure upon editorial staff of newspaper is continued The deputy editor of the independent weekly "Vzglyad" Alexei Gostev was summoned as a witness in Department of Committee of National Security on February 08, 2012. The pagemaker was also...

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS/ IFEX Press release 07.02.2012 Read online: http://www.ifex.org/kazakhstan/2012/02/07/vinyavsky_appeal/ The following is a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan about the detention of editor...

KAZAKHSTAN: NEW YEAR, NEW ATTACKS ON FREE EXPRESSION ARTICLE 19 ARTICLE 19 is concerned that the politically-motivated arrest of an editor-in-chief, the surveillance of internet users and the banning of journalists from certain activities do not...