Zarina Akhmatova

Affiliated media: HolaNews.kz , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: October 15, 2021

Attack type:

• Dismissal / involuntary dismissal / forced quitting of the profession / expulsion from the educational institution

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Samat Dzhamayev's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The founders of the website HOLA News Kazakhstan Alisher Kaydarov, Adilet Tursynbekov and editor-in-chief Zarina Akhmatova announced their resignation from the project. «Circumstances have developed in such a way that after 10 days of blocking, we had to compromise our basic principle. We removed the news item from the website.... That’s why we believe that leaving is better than staying. In order to remain ourselves», — they say in an appeal to readers. The deleted article talked about the Pandora Papers and the involvement of more than 35 world leaders and 400 officials from about 100 countries (including Kazakhstan) in offshore schemes.