Lukpan Akhmedyarov

Affiliated media: Uralsk Week, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: June 19, 2018

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

The editor of "Uralsk Week" Lukpan Akhmedyarov and the publication's correspondent Maria Melnikova were also summoned to the city's internal police department. Lukpan Akhmedyarov, editor of the Uralsk Week newspaper, announced on Facebook about the interrogation at the Uralsk police department on June 19th. The reason was a comment by a certain Zhan Baizhanov on the newspaper's YouTube channel, in which he urged people to come to a rally on June 23rd. The investigator was interested in one thing - how to find the author of the comment. L. Akhmedyarov advised the investigator to contact the YouTube administration.