Sanavar Zakirova - Justice for Journalists

Sanavar Zakirova

Affiliated media: Online activist

Incident date: May 20, 2020

Attack type:

  • Court trial
  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)
  • Authorised travel ban (movement inside a country or specific region / town)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Radio Azattyq

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

Almaty court has started a criminal case that charges activist Sanvar Zakirova with "inflicting medium gravity injury”. Zakirova is accused of physically attacking Diana Shakirova –the daughter of “Nur Otan” party Tamata Shakirova on 8 March.

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