Affiliated media: Channel 5 Kz, TV channel

Incident date: December 15, 2017

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Karaganda Region, Karaganda

Additional information:

In Kazybek-Bi district court No.2 of Karaganda is considering a claim for the protection of honour, dignity and business reputation and recovery of moral and material damages to the "DRM Real Estate Agency" against "Channel 5", "Creadom" LLP (owner of the site eKaraganda.kz) and journalist Ksenia Bezkorovoinaya. The plaintiff demands to recognise the disseminated information as unreliable and defamatory of his honour, dignity and business reputation, to oblige the defendants to publish a refutation, to recover from the journalist Bezkorovainaya material damage of 176,000 tenge and moral damages from all defendants to a total of 500,000 tenge.