Affiliated media: Orda.kz, Online media

Incident date: October 20, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Orda.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Astana

Additional information:

Only elected officials, deputies, aksakals, and businessmen, but not ordinary citizens, were able to talk to the president at the public meeting, Orda.kz reports. Media representatives were not invited to the pre-election meeting of the President of Kazakhstan in Taldykorgan. When asked by the editorial office how the list of people for the meeting with the participation of the head of state was formed, the press secretary of the Akim of the Zhetysu region said that he did not know and, literally: «Not being able to think now».