Azamat Sarsenbayev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: January 21, 2021

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Kazakhstan, Mangystau Province, Aktau

Additional information:

By the court order, blogger Azamat Sarsenbayev was brought to administrative responsibility for violation of «the rules of protection of plant and animal habitats, the rules of creation, storage, accounting and use of zoological collections, as well as illegal relocation, introduction, reintroduction and hybridization of animal species». As a punishment, Sarsenbayev was given an administrative penalty in the form of a warning. The reason was the video of pink flamingos on the lake Karakol, filmed with a drone.