Lukpan Akhmedyarov - Justice for Journalists

Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week (uralskweek.kz) , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: January 10, 2021

Attack type:

  • Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Uralsk Week (uralskweek.kz)

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

On the night of January 10 (the day of elections to the lower chamber of parliament and executive bodies) Lukpan Akhmedyarov's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked. In the morning, the journalist learned about it from the Facebook tech support message that the password to his account was changed and the account was blocked due to the pornographic videos.

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