Sandugash Duysenova - Justice for Journalists

Sandugash Duysenova

Affiliated media: Vremya newspaper, Journalist

Incident date: October 19, 2022

Attack type:

  • Wiretapping / surveillance without a court decree

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Taldykorgan

Additional information:

Sandugash Duysenova, the journalist of the newspaper Vremya, found a certain device with a SIM card under the bottom of her car. An employee of the service station, where she went because her car began to «go wrong,» said that the device was attached to the rear gearbox and a grenade began to hit it. «My friends, it turns out, were watching me, and something was bothering me. Guys got curious, they’ll look into it. It turns out that this is an unspoken investigative act of following me?», — says Duysenova. When the journalist took out the SIM card and put it into her phone, it turned out that the number belonged to a Kazakhstan citizen who works for the tax authorities in Lenger. The journalist went to the police with a complaint.

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