Askar Shaigumarov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: February 27, 2019

Attack type:

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

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

On February 27th, the well-known blogger Askar Shigumarov and a friend left home and headed to a shop for lunch. At the exit of the house at 13.30 Almaty time, the police detained them, forcefully confiscated a smartphone, and then took them to the local police station. The blogger was interrogated all day about the group "Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan", then brought to the facility's exams area, and at eight in the evening was escorted home.