Ardak Ashim

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: November 7, 2017

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Shymkent

Additional information:

On November 7th, blogger Ardak Ashim received a summons from the police department of the Yenbekshikazakh district of Shymkent. He was informed that according to the Information Research Centre at the Mayor's Office of the South Kazakhstan region, a criminal case had been opened against him under article 274, part 2, point 3 (dissemination of false information). The reason was Ardak's posts published on Facebook, in which he expressed his opinion on the translation of the Kazakh alphabet into Latin.