Askar Shaigumarov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: March 6, 2019

Attack type:

• Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Source: KazTAG

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Askar Shaigumarov, a well-known human rights activist from Uralsk, accused the security services of deleting his YouTube channel, Uralsk Week reports. "At about 5 am on March 22nd, I received text messages on my mobile phone saying that someone was trying to change my password on my Google account, through which I registered my YouTube channel. I almost immediately started changing the password myself, but apparently these SMS messages about the change of password were intercepted and I am sure that the special services did it, as only they would be able to do such a thing," Shaigumarov said on Monday.