Affiliated media: Tgstat.com , Online media

Incident date: October 1, 2022

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Internet Freedom

Location: Kazakhstan, Astana, Astana

Additional information:

In October 2022, the analytical Internet resource of Telegram channels Tgstat.com, as well as its regional subdomain kaz.tgstat.com were blocked in Kazakhstan. The reason was that one of the URL links led to a channel with information about drugs and for the «distribution of materials of sexual and erotic nature». The administrators of the website did not receive any notices from the authorized body of the Ministry of Information and Public Development of Kazakhstan. Access to the website and the subdomain kaz.tgstat.com has now been restored with the assistance of the Digital Paradigm Foundation. Digital Paradigm is to carry out communication between the administration of the website and the Kazakh authorized body.