Zhanagul Zhursin

Affiliated media: Radio Azattyk, Journalist

Incident date: January 12, 2022

Attack type:

• Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists

Location: Kazakhstan, Aktobe Province, Aktobe

Additional information:

Aktobe journalists are summoned for interrogation one by one. Zhanalyk Akhash, a KTK TV channel correspondent for Aktobe, has already been to the regional police department, having been summoned by phone. Journalists of Radio Azattyq and Channel 31 were invited afterwards. «I was being interrogated for about an hour. They asked me why I went to the rally and whether I was a member of various organizations», – Zhanalyk Ahash wrote in his Instagram stories.