Articles by Adil Soz – International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech
Videographer assaulted
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – On November 27, 2005, Aset Kunakbayev, a videographer for the 31 Channel programme “Reider”, was assaulted while covering a fire at Ak zhar market, in Almaty. Asel Yelemesova, another journalist who witnessed the incident, reported that “three men in civilian clothing who refused to identify themselves knocked [Kunakbayev] to the ground and […]
Journalist denied information
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – The following is a joint Adil Soz and Trade Union for Journalists in Kyrgyzstan alert: On 19 November, 2005, Alisher Saipov, a reporter with Voice of America in Kyrgyzstan, was denied information by Hokim Razykov, head of the Interior Department’s Support for Public Movements Section, in Osh. The journalist was requesting information […]
Assailants vandalise newspaper office
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – During the night of 6-7 November 2005, unknown individuals vandalised the offices of “Region-Plus” newspaper in Kapchagai, southern Kazakhstan. On the morning of 7 November, newspaper staff found stones in the editorial office and noticed that a glass balcony door had been broken. Police believe the attackers had a key to enter […]
Two opposition newspapers found guilty of “spreading falsehoods”
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – Court proceedings against two opposition newspapers took place in the Almaty Inter-district Administrative Court on 22 October 2005. The court delivered a ruling obliging Gulzhan Yergaliyeva, editor-in-chief of “Svoboda Slova” newspaper, to pay 50 “monthly calculated indexes” (approx. US$360). Yergaliyeva and her attorney left the courtroom in the middle of the session […]
Protesters attack and threaten journalists
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – The following is a joint Trade Union for Journalists in Kyrgyzstan and Adil Soz alert: On October 26, 2005, protesters calling for the resignation of the government and Prime Minister Felix Kulov and for the dissolution of Parliament assaulted and threatened television reporters in the central square of Osh, a city in […]
Almaty police seize 50,000 copies of popular opposition newspaper
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – On 19 October 2005, the popular opposition newspaper “Svoboda Slova” reported that a car transporting copies of the paper was stopped by Almaty police a few meters from the Dauyr printing press and police proceeded to seize 50,000 copies of the paper. According to a “Svoboda Slova” statement, the seizure was based […]
Five reporters and a camera operator detained briefly by police
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – The press agency of the opposition party For a Just Kazakhstan has reported that five journalists and a camera operator were detained briefly by Almaty police on 19 October 2005. They include Saya Issa of “Svoboda Slova” newspaper, Olesya Gassanova and Almas Nurdos of the online publication Stan.kz, Ruslan Sapabekov of “Juma […]
Journalist sentenced to five days’ administrative detention for covering opposition demonstration
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – On 12 October 2005 in Almaty, Kaziz Toguzbayev, a journalist with “Azat” newspaper, was sentenced to five days’ administrative detention on charges of taking part in an unsanctioned demonstration under Article 373 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The journalist was arrested on 10 October while covering a demonstration […]