Sergey Berdnikov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: August 17, 2022

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Ratel.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan Province, Verkh-Uba

Additional information:

Sergei Berdnikov, the regional representative of the public association OSA, was attacked by the head of one of the farms in the village of Verkh-Uba in the East Kazakhstan region, where the blogger had arrived following a complaint from residents. First, the man began to reprimand Berdnikov for writing a complaint with the Department of Ecology about the landfill, then he insulted the blogger, and then he began beating him, trying to tear the keys from the car so that he could not leave. According to Berdnikov, in the hospital in the regional center, he was diagnosed with a concussion. The blogger filed a complaint with the police.