Tamara Yeslyamova

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week, Editor

Incident date: August 29, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

On August 29th, the Supreme Court Judicial Panel on Civil Cases, chaired by Judge Sarsenbaev, considered the case of the humiliation of police major Daniar Rakishev's honour and dignity against the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Uralsk Week", Tamara Yeslyamova. According to the court's decision, Tamara Yeslyamova must publish a refutation of the report and pay the policeman a total of 3.5 million tenge in compensation for moral harm (2 million tenge from the newspaper's owner, 1.5 million from the editor-in-chief).