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A blocked website; reporting equipment confiscated; a newsroom sealed; and reporters denied information from state agencies: these things together spelled the end of Stan.kz, a local, independent Internet-based broadcaster which for two years had tirelessly reported on developments in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan Highlights
Access to InformationTokbergen Abiyev is safe and well after raising concerns about his disappearance on 20 December. The journalist has claimed that he staged his own disappearance, ahead of a planned press conference about corruption in Kazakhstan, in order to raise awareness about the issue both within the country and internationally.
AttacksTokbergen Abiyev went missing the evening before a press conference at which he claimed he would reveal sensational information about corruption. The disappearance of Abiyev follows two cases in which Kazakh journalists were attacked in response to their work.
Free Expression & the LawA year after clashes between striking oil workers and the police took place on Kazakhstan’s Independence Day on Zhanaozen’s central square, those who reported on the violence are still under threat, says Human Rights Watch.
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