Orken Zhoyamergen

Affiliated media: Radio Azattyk, Journalist

Incident date: January 9, 2019

Attack type:

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

Source: Radio Azattyk

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

On January 9th in Astana, police detained Radio Azattyk reporter Orken Zhoyamergen and cameraman Yerzhan Amirkhanov. They were taken to the police station and later released. At the police station, the reporter was told that he and the cameraman had been arrested "by mistake". At the same time, Zhoyamergen said, security forces demanded to delete pictures from his camera.