Affiliated media: Kursiv, Journalist

Incident date: November 20, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Astana

Additional information:

On the day of the election of the President of Kazakhstan, journalists of several mass media — Vesti.kg, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, Ulys Media, Kursiv, Radio Azattyq, Zakon.kz — could not be present at the polling station during the voting of the current President of Kazakhstan Tokayev because of a long check. Journalists of Radio Azattyq were not allowed in because they were denied accreditation. Representatives of other media not allowed into the polling station had accreditation. «We were all told to arrive at 8.40-8.45 AM, but the president came to vote earlier. I arrived there at 8.35 AM, my colleagues and I would have made it if the State Security Service hadn’t searched us for so long. And that wasn’t even the point. Some of the journalists were warned in advance, some were not. There was full discommunication between the Ministry of Information and the presidential press service. I don’t know why it happens that way», — said the journalist of Vesti.kz Ainur Koskina.