Affiliated media: Uralsk Week, Online website

Incident date: December 13, 2019

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Source: Time

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

"The site of "Ural Week" is blocked. I can see three reasons: the approach of December 16; criticism of a corrupt project run by local authorities - the microregion "Ak Zhaiyk" and the bridge over Lake Chagan; criticism of police work in the West Kazakhstan region, in particular the work of General Ablazimin," journalist Raul Uporov said on Friday.