Pavel Pritolyuk

Affiliated media: inbusiness.kz , Journalist

Incident date: September 28, 2021

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Sotreport.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan Province, Petropavlovsk

Additional information:

Petropavlovsk City Multi-Disciplinary Hospital filed a civil lawsuit for the protection of its business reputation, demanding that journalist Pavel Pritolyuk publish a refutation. The reason for the court proceedings was the article about the fact that the purchased expensive medical equipment did not relieve North-Kazakhstan residents from queues. The article was prepared by the journalist according to the research of the First Anti-Corruption Media Center and published on the portal inbusiness.kz. The subject of the dispute was a quote from this research. The court left the lawsuit without consideration due to the plaintiff's failure to comply with the legally established mandatory procedure for pre-trial resolution of the dispute.