Alexander Baranov

Affiliated media: Gorodskaya Nedelya, Journalist

Incident date: March 6, 2021

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar

Additional information:

On the evening of March 6, two police officers came to the home of Pavlodar-based journalist Alexander Baranov. Referring to the complaint and the demand to bring the Pavlodar-based journalist to administrative responsibility for libel, the police officers demanded verbal explanations from Baranov about the publication «Tokayev was not heard by everyone». After recording the explanations in the report, the police officers left, refusing to provide the journalist with a complaint from Sapmar LLP for familiarization.