Denis Spiridonov

Affiliated media: Informbirzha, Journalist

Incident date: April 13, 2017

Attack type:

• Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

At the entrance to the mayor's office, police asked journalists to hand over their mobile phones. When someone objected that these were needed as dictophones and photographic devices, the police said that these were the instructions of the head of documentation and financial and economic work of the mayor's office, Rinat Kuanyshkaliev.