Событие Lyazzat Asanova - Justice for Journalists

Lyazzat Asanova

Affiliated media: Breath of the Region, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: June 13, 2019

Attack type:

  • Fines and other restrictions following administrative offences

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, South Kazakhstan Province, Turkestan

Additional information:

In the proceedings of the Tole Bi District Court of the Turkestan region there was a claim for the protection of Akmaral, Dauren and Yerbol Madelkhanov's honour, dignity and business reputation and compensation of moral damages from journalist Lyazzat Asanova. On 13th June the court partially granted the claim : Lyazzat Asanova must pay 80,000 tenge to compensate for the moral harm of each of the plaintiffs and publish a refutation of the defamatory information.

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