Journalist Initiative LLP  - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Journalist Initiative LLP , Media owner

Incident date: March 15, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Ex-police officer Khaidar Zheksenov repeatedly appealed to Court № 2 of Uralsk. He filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation and compensation for moral damage against the owner of the newspaper Uralskaya Nedelya — Journalist Initiative LLP — and citizen Asel Alkanova. The reason for the lawsuit was the article «I raised this beast myself: the policeman’s wife told how her husband abused her», in which Alkanova tells about the beatings by Zheksenov, to which she was subjected for six years.

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