Affiliated media: Mediazona.ca, News outlet

Incident date: July 27, 2021

Attack type:

• request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona.ca

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

Ministry of Information of Kazakhstan demanded from the editorial office of Mediazona to remove from the news story of July 8 «Mural with Nazarbayev as a metallurgist in Almaty was painted with the inscription „Cancel” and a clown nose» a photo of the mural of Elbasy with a clown nose. The Ministry reminded the editorial office of the criminal responsibility for public insult and other encroachment on the honour and dignity of the country's First President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The editorial office did not remove the photo but simply blurred it.