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Opposition journalist seriously wounded in vicious attack outside his home

Published on 20 April 2012Read

Relief!

Newspaper editor pardoned and freed

Published on 15 March 2012Read

Leading independent Kazakh newspaper at centre of major media crackdown

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by the growing crackdown on independent journalists in Kazakhstan “The authorities, even more (...)

Published on 3 February 2012 Read

Newspaper editor finally released after completing three-year jail term

Reporters Without Borders is thankful that Ramazan Esergepov (Рамазан Есергепов), the editor of the weekly Alma- Ata Info, was finally released today, one (...)

Published on 6 January 2012 Read

Western province cut off as government cracks down on protests

Reporters Without Borders condemns the media and communications blackout that has been imposed on the western province of Mangystau, especially (...)

Published on 19 December 2011 Read

Journalists beaten with baseball bats while trying to cover oil workers’ strike

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that two journalists with Stan TV, an Almaty-based independent news website and online TV station, (...)

Published on 26 October 2011 Read

Mounting concern about Kazakhstan’s use of cyber-censorship

Kazakhstan, which likes to portray itself as a regional model after holding the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s rotating (...)

Published on 26 August 2011 Read

Link to victim’s work ignored in trial of Kyrgyz journalist’s accused murderers

The trial of three people accused of killing Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk in the Kazakh capital of Almaty in December 2009 by throwing him (...)

Published on 8 June 2011 Read

Copies of opposition weekly seized, journalists arrested

Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of harassment of news media and journalists critical of a proposed referendum that would allow (...)

Published on 21 January 2011 Read

Kazakhstan must be reminded of its human rights obligations at Astana summit

Reporters Without Borders is appalled that Kazakhstan, as this year’s holder of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s rotating (...)

Published on 29 November 2010 Read

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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