Tatyana Kovalyova

Affiliated media: Sotreport.kz , Journalist

Incident date: October 6, 2021

Attack type:

• Warnings, pre-trial complaints, questioning and other extra-judicial actions

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Informburo.kz

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Nur-Sultan

Additional information:

The Appeal Board of the Military Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued a private ruling against the journalist of the website Sotreport.kz Tatyana Kovalyova, who covered the trial on the case of embezzlement of money during the execution of the state order. The judges accused the journalist of bias, violation of the law on mass media, forming public opinion about the innocence of the convicts, and about the injustice of the court, «in order to influence the court on the administration of justice to make a decision in favour of one of the parties». «The journalist committed such actions on September 24 by posting a publication entitled „The case of Gosoboronzakaz: The contract has been fulfilled, the customer has no claims, but someone will still go to jail“, where she independently made a conclusion about the innocence of the convicted Daleyev and Aykulov for the appeal instance», — the private ruling says.