Affiliated media: Channel 1 Eurasia, Journalist

Incident date: July 1, 2023

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Shymkent

Additional information:

Relatives of the defendants attacked journalists in the courtroom, where the verdict was read out to four police officers, during whose interrogation a detainee died. When the judge read out the verdict, the relatives of the defendants loudly demanded to stop filming, although the journalists were not filming the defendants. Then, one of the women threw a water bottle at the journalist. After the verdict was pronounced, the judge left and the relatives of the convicts surrounded the journalists, pushing them. The anti-corruption officers intervened. They asked the crowd to calm down and allowed the journalists and cameramen to leave the hall. The incident was covered by journalists of the TV channels Otyrar, Channel 31, and Channel 1 Eurasia.