Gennady Benditsky

Affiliated media: Ratel.kz, Journalist

Incident date: June 29, 2017

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The plaintiff asked the court to declare 14 articles, 7 of which were published on the website of Forbes.kz and 7 on the Ratel.kz, as untrue, to refute them and to remove them completely from the sites. The court decided to collect 1,000,000 tenge from the defendants and found the articles indicated by the plaintiff to be untrue.