Событие Aslan Kurmanbaev - Justice for Journalists

Aslan Kurmanbaev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: January 15, 2017

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: United Media Platform of the Democratic Forces of Kazakhstan

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Astana opened a criminal case under article 174 of the Criminal Code ("Incitement of social, national, ancestral, racial, class or religious discord") against civil activist Aslan Kurmanbayev. The reason was a post on the social network Facebook, in which he talked about a boycott of the Universiade (World Student Games) and Expo in support of convicted activists M. Bokaev and T. Ayan.

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