Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week , Journalist

Incident date: July 29, 2021

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

Police officers of Nur-Sultan detained the journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov and the cameraman Isatay Duysekeshov. The journalist and the cameraman were filming the panorama of the city with a drone. The police inspectors demanded from the journalists to show permission to launch the drone. It is worth mentioning that police officers could not explain which body issues such permission. The journalists were taken to the Nur-Sultan district police Department, where they wrote explanatory reports.