Nurgul Akhmetova

Affiliated media: Khabar TV channel, Journalist

Incident date: March 19, 2020

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan Province, Petropavlovsk

Additional information:

The head of the Petropavlovsk education department, Sara Ramazanova, filed a police report to bring the correspondent of the Khabar TV channel Nurgul Akhmetova to criminal liability «for the dissemination of personal data in the social group "Law Abiding Citizen" on Facebook». On March 19, the journalist was summoned to the city police department of Petropavlovsk for interrogation as a witness. They took a nondisclosure undertaking from her about the pre-trial investigation. It is only known that the applicant filed a complaint against the journalist because of the publication of family photos, which she herself had previously posted on social networks.