Affiliated media: The Lyudi, Cameraman

Incident date: January 8, 2022

Attack type:

• Short-term detention

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: YouTube channel The Lyudi Special Report

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

In Nur-Sultan, the film crew of the popular Russian YouTube channel The Lyudi — special correspondent Andrey Yashchenko and a cameraman — were detained by police officers while filming near the presidential residence. «In a minute, another fighter appears, then two more people in civilian clothes, as I later learnt — employees of the national security committee. They detained me together with the cameraman and took me to the department», — says the journalist in the film «Kazakhstan: Sweeps — Pogroms in Almaty/Report from the scene of events».