Sergey Sayko

Affiliated media: Road Control, Blogger

Incident date: November 7, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, North Kazakhstan Province, Petropavlovsk

Additional information:

In Petropavlovsk, the correspondents of two media outlets were not allowed to attend an open court session in the administrative court, where the case of R. Mustafina, a deputy of the city Maslikhat, was being considered. The application for participation in the online session was submitted by the correspondent of Road Control Sergey Sayko. Also, the author of the YouTube channel «Petropavlovsk Today» Nikolay Nikolayenko spoke with the court secretary on the eve of the meeting about his admission to the courtroom but did not receive a sensible answer. The press service of the court of the North-Kazakhstan region said that no requests for the participation of mass media representatives in verbal or written form had been received.