James Palmer

Affiliated media: Foreign Policy , Internet resource

Incident date: June 15, 2017

Attack type:

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

Source: Adil Soz

Location: KazakhstanKazakhstan, West Kazakhstan ProvinceKazakhstan, South Kazakhstan Province

Additional information:

On June 15th, Foreign Policy journalist James Palmer published a controversial article called "Death Star for $5 billion" in which he criticised the Expo in Astana. The Foreign Policy website soon became unavailable to Kazakh users.