Yelena Semenova

Affiliated media: Blogger, Human rights activist

Incident date: February 1, 2021

Attack type:

• prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar

Additional information:

In Pavlodar, the court considered a lawsuit for the protection of the business reputation of the penitentiary institution of ZhD-158/1 in Taraz against the human rights activist, working on the rights of prisoners, Yelena Semenova and prisoner K. Babayev. The plaintiff demanded a refutation of the information distributed in Yelena Semenova's Facebook post. During the consideration of the claim, a representative of the penitentiary institution received a statement of return of the claim, in connection with which the court left the claim without consideration.