Lukpan Akhmedyarov - Justice for Journalists

Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Ural'skaya nedelya (uralskweek.kz) , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: February 22, 2021

Attack type:

  • Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Journalists' Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Lukpan Akhmedyarov was summoned to the police for interrogation. He spent about nine hours in the police. “In the first four hours, the investigator managed to ask six questions,” writes Akhmedyarov. The questions concerned the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement.

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