Affiliated media: Orda.kz , Online news outlet

Incident date: January 4, 2022

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Vlast.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The news portal Orda.kz has been blocked amid protests in the country against the gas price increase. Gulnar Bazhkenova, editor-in-chief of Orda.kz, said that at first, the website started failing, after which «gradually the website stopped loading at all». «We checked logging in via VPN – it works, and we checked with acquaintances in Russia – it works. So it's a block», – Gulnar Bazhenova wrote. She also noted that the website contained only current news, «uncut, in the mode of professional journalism, no activism, no appeals».