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Annual Award “Freedom” was awarded to journalist Ramazan Yesergepov, human rights activist Eugene Zhovtis and former head of atomic energy Mukhtar Zhakishev on January 19, 2010 in Astana. Wives of jailed candidates for an award could receive this...

General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan placed its statement, addressed to all media outlets, public associations and other interested persons; placed on its website on December 30, 2009. It resembled journalists that propaganda of...

Five social television programs on Kazakh language were closed on TV Channel “31Channel”. There were television programs such as, “Club of Adepts” of Nurlan Alimzhan, talk show “Contemporaries” of Maksat Malikuly, “Businessman” of Nursultan Kurman and...

Proper correspondent of the newspaper “Vremya” Victor Miroshnichenko and news reporter of the newspaper “Liter” Zaure Zhumalieva were acquitted by Petropavlovsk City Court on January 13, 2010. Journalists were charged with libel. The charges stemmed...

January 11, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement after receiving reports today that a trial of three press freedom activists, who organized a protest on Wednesday against the jailing of journalists in Kazakhstan, has...

Collegium of Criminal Cases of Caraganda Regional Court dismissed sentence of Temirtau City Court in relation to Bakhtiyar Omarov. He was found guilty in commitment of the crime under article 164 p.1 “Deliberate actions aimed at the incitement of social,...