Dilara Isa

Affiliated media: Radio Azattyq, Journalist

Incident date: September 17, 2023

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Azattyq

Location: Kazakhstan, Turkistan Region, Mashat

Additional information:

The chairman of the polling station in the Tyulkubas district of the Turkestan region did not allow Radio Azattyq reporter Dilara Isa to cover the voting process at the elections of the Akim of the rural district Mashat. The journalist presented her editorial assignment and service ID, but the chairman of the district territorial election commission stated that the journalist has no right to cover the election process, disseminate information from the polling station, she can be at the polling station «as an observer».