Roman Chestnykh - Justice for Journalists

Roman Chestnykh

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: October 3, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Facebook page of Roman Chestnykh

Location: Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan Province, Ust-Kamenogorsk

Additional information:

Deputies of the maslihat of the Oskemen city Stanislav Karimov and Yulia Mironova appealed to the blogger Roman Chestnykh with a pre-trial claim. They accuse the blogger of spreading information about the installation of road signs by their company at an inflated price. Deputies consider such information causing damage to business reputation.

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