Status LLP - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Status LLP, Founder of the Nadezhda information portal

Incident date: June 16, 2021

Attack type:

  • prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, West Kazakhstan Province, Uralsk

Additional information:

Specialized Inter-District Economic Court of West Kazakhstan region held a hearing on the lawsuit of the Global informations systems company to the owner and founder of the My City and Hope information portals – Mediastart-2012 LLP and Status LLP – about the recognition of information not corresponding to the reality. The plaintiff disputes the information that the program for monitoring the snow and garbage removal situation developed by the Global informations systems does not work as intended. The publications cited the direct speech of the head of the relevant department of the akimat J. Duysengaliyev, in which he spoke unflatteringly about the product of the company. The court dismissed the lawsuit.

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