(Adil Soz/IFEX) – On 24 December 2004, security guards for the Kazakhstan national television station forcibly detained KTK television station reporter Yaroslav Krasiyenko and cameraman Lamzar Lyusan. Krasiyenko and Lyusan were held for about two hours. The camera crew was filming city winter scenes at the time of the incident. After Lyusan began to film […]
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – On 24 December 2004, security guards for the Kazakhstan national television station forcibly detained KTK television station reporter Yaroslav Krasiyenko and cameraman Lamzar Lyusan. Krasiyenko and Lyusan were held for about two hours.
The camera crew was filming city winter scenes at the time of the incident. After Lyusan began to film the “Kazakhstan” building, security guards approached the journalists, stopped them from filming and told them to follow them inside. According to Krasiyenko, he and Lyusan obeyed in order to avoid being beaten or having their equipment damaged.
In the lobby, Valeriy Nesterov, the head of the security service, showed them an order prohibiting the use of video and photographic recording devices near the building, as it is considered a “strategic object”. Some time later, police officers arrived and the journalists filed police reports, claiming they were illegally detained. They were subsequently released.
The KTK television station management has also filed a complaint with the district police department regarding the illegal actions of the Kazakhstan national television station’s security personnel.
