Yelena Semyonova - Justice for Journalists

Yelena Semyonova

Affiliated media: Blogger, Human Rights Lawyer

Incident date: April 8, 2021

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar

Additional information:

Human rights lawyer Yelena Semyonova is a defendant in a civil lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity and the payment of compensation for the moral damage of citizen Savelyeva. The reason for the proceedings was the appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office and the Committee of the Criminal Executive System of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan that the convict was forced to commit an act of self-mutilation in order to attract attention and save the woman from the daily rape by employees of the institution. The appeal was published on Facebook on 25.07.2020.

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