Affiliated media: yvision.kz , Internet outlet

Incident date: March 11, 2018

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: tengrinews.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

The Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan has published on its website a statement on dissemination of false information. «... posts containing defamatory information, accusing them of creating corruption schemes in the activities of a public body, appeared on the Internet resource yvision.kz. All this false information came out under fake nicknames. Scientists also appealed to the Science Committee with information about forgery of their signatures under an appeal distributed to the Head of State," the statement reads.