Serikzhan Mauletbay - Justice for Journalists

Serikzhan Mauletbay

Affiliated media: Informburo.kz , Journalist

Incident date: April 9, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Informburo.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The Central Communications Service under the President of Kazakhstan disconnected the journalist of Informburo.kz Serikzhan Mauletbay from the online conference on the Zoom platform and did not give him the opportunity to ask questions about the situation with coronavirus infection in Kazakhstan to Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Interagency Commission on non-proliferation of Covid-19 Yeraly Tugzhanov. The reason for the journalist's disconnection was that his question was not related to the stated topic of the online conference.

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