Affiliated media: KazTAG, Journalist

Incident date: June 13, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Astana

Additional information:

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources refused accreditation to the meeting of the Public Council to the correspondent of KazTAG. The refusal was motivated by the fact that the meeting would be broadcast online. The journalist of the news agency tried to be accredited to this event in order to ask a number of acute questions to representatives of the Ministry and members of the public council amid the criticism of the Ministry related to the forest fire in the Abay Region.