Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralskaya Nedelya, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: February 1, 2021

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Lukpan Akhmedyarov, editor-in-chief of Uralskaya Nedelya, was summoned to the Uralsk City Police Department in connection with a criminal case opened at the demand of the prosecutor’s office for publication of «Land Scandal in Uralsk — Prosecutor’s Mom Became Owner of Five Plots of Land» (Uralskaya Nedelya, 27.11.2020). The investigation is being conducted under the article of the criminal code "Disclosure of data from pre-trial proceedings or closed court proceedings. Lukpan Akhmedyarov is being investigated as a witness with the right to defense. The investigator asked three questions related to the publication and then took an undertaking from the journalist about the inadmissibility of disclosure of pre-trial investigation data in the criminal case.