Событие - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Observers of the West Kazakhstan Region, Social media account

Incident date: June 9, 2019

Attack type:

  • Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

The election day of the President of Kazakhstan in the West Kazakhstan region began with the hacking of the accounts of administrators of the group "Observers of the West Kazakhstan Region" in the WhatsApp messenger, reports "Uralsk Week." The group "Observers of the WKR", which consisted of more than 200 activists and electoral observers, was deleted.

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