Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralskaya Nedelya, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: January 30, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Journalist's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

The Uralsk police received a demand to initiate a pre-trial investigation into the publication in the newspaper Uralskaya Nedelya dated November 27, 2020. «Land scandal in Uralsk — the prosecutor’s mother became the owner of five land plots». Lukpan Akhmedyarov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, was summoned for questioning in connection with the investigation.