Yelena Semyonova

Affiliated media: Blogger, Human Rights Lawyer

Incident date: April 22, 2021

Attack type:

• repayment of compensation and legal costs following civil lawsuits

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Province, Pavlodar

Additional information:

Human rights lawyer Yelena Semyonova, who deals with the rights of prisoners, according to a court decision made on the claim of V. Savelyeva, must publish a refutation on the social network Facebook and pay moral damages in the amount of KZT 50,000 (more than US 100). The reason for the court proceedings was Semyonova's post published on a social network that the convict was forced to commit an act of self-mutilation in order to get attention and save a woman from the daily rape by the staff of the institution.