Gulnar Bazhkenova

Affiliated media: Orda.kz , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 26, 2022

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Gulnar Bazhkenova's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

Gulnar Bazhkenova, the editor-in-chief of Orda.kz, said that after a series of investigative materials about Jusan Bank, pressure on the website and on her increased. «My photos with indecent advertisements and phone numbers of the media employees began to appear on VKontakte. A week ago, fake accounts of various Sonyas and Viktorias with my phone numbers and offers of an intimate nature were scattered in the same social network by a virus. You can imagine what is going on in my phone», — wrote Bazhkenova. The messages began to arrive in the editorial bot-chat, in which an unknown person, naming the address of the apartment that Bazhkenova rented in 2000-2002, threatened to come and insulted the journalist.