Akmaral Shayakhmetova

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week, Journalist

Incident date: March 20, 2018

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

On March 20th, police officers arrived at the editorial office of the West Kazakhstan social and political weekly "Uralsk Week" and escorted the correspondent Akmaral Shayakhmetova to the Interior Ministry of the West Kazakhstan Region, where representatives of the local police service, the city department of internal policy and the regional prosecutor's office warned her about the "unacceptable propaganda and support of "Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan" on social media." The conversation with the journalist was recorded on video.