Affiliated media: Nasha Gazeta, Online media

Incident date: November 8, 2022

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Kostanay Province, Kostanay

Additional information:

The Center for Information Analysis under the Ministry of Information and Public Development informed the editorial board of Nasha Gazeta about the violation of the electoral law. The Center for Information Analysis called a quote from the Facebook post of presidential candidate Karakat Abden that holidays like Halloween should be banned at the state level a violation. This statement was published by Nasha Gazeta on November 3 in the «NG Quotes» column. An employee of CAI recommended the newspaper’s editor-in-chief Timur Gafurov to publish information about other candidates of the same space in the newspaper in order to provide equal coverage of the election campaign of the presidential candidates. The editor-in-chief replied: «If other candidates say anything glaring during the campaign, their quotes will be published in the newspaper. If not, then no».