Affiliated media: KTK, Film crew

Incident date: April 10, 2019

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Akmola Province, Kokshetau

Additional information:

In Kokshetau, Yerbolat Temerbekov, the lawyer for a central clinic, attacked the film crew of the KTK TV channel during the recording of an interview. In the corridor of the state institution, when the cameraman began to shoot the conclusion of the medical examiner's report on the causes of a child's death, the organisation's lawyer forcefully snatched the microphone from the correspondent and started pushing her away. Then he pounced on the cameraman and slammed the video camera with the microphone. As a result, the microphone was smashed to pieces, the video camera was damaged, and the journalist had two fingernails torn off during the scuffle. All this happened in front of a large crowd of people.