Davranbek

Affiliated media: Otyrar TV company, Cameraman

Incident date: April 4, 2021

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Otyrar.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Shymkent

Additional information:

During the shooting in the Altyntobe residential complex in Shymkent, where the local residents were demonstrating, the journalists were obstructed in every way by the representatives of the law enforcement bodies. As a result, the cameraman of the Otyrar TV company was injured. «Yesterday, we were filming a meeting of people. I was holding an umbrella over my cameraman because it was raining, a man in a police uniform took my umbrella and pulled it over the camera to cover the lens, the umbrella broke, and I got a hand wound. Then, Davranbek, the cameraman of the Otyrar TV channel was struck in the kidneys. He turned around and it turned out to be a police officer as well», — said Bakhrom Abdullayev, the Channel 31 correspondent.