Dmitry Tereshchenko
Affiliated media: Liter, Journalist
Incident date: November 29, 2022
Attack type:
- Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Adil Soz
Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk
Additional information:
Marat Akhmetzhanov, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, arrived in the West Kazakhstan Oblast on a working visit. The press service of the regional Police Department began calling journalists from local and national media outlets about a month in advance to clarify the questions they were going to ask during the briefing. Shortly before the visit, a chat room was set up to include journalists who would cover the Minister’s visit. It turned out that not all of them were allowed to cover the visit of the Minister — Maria Melnikova (Radio Azattyq), Akmaral Shayakhmetova (Ratel.kz), and Dmitry Tereshchenko (Liter) were not invited to the briefing at all.