Affiliated media: Moy Gorod, Journalist

Incident date: August 17, 2022

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Journalists from Uralsk were not allowed into the territory of the Mirlan market, where they had come to cover the work of the monitoring group on the regulation of prices for socially important food products, created under the regional branch of the Amanat party. «They (the market administration) were checking us as part of the anti-terrorist indicators. What terrorists we look like, I never understood. Besides, they did not allow journalists to enter the market at all, thus violating the law on mass media. Moreover, all these facts took place in the presence of market director Tagira Zhuravleva. I could not get in to see her for 40 minutes, after which we were allowed in, but the journalists were guarded by the security service», said Afiza Semgaliyeva, inspector of the Party Control Commission of the Western Kazakhstan regional branch of the party.