(Adil Soz/IFEX) – Andrey Klimonov, a freelance reporter for “Respublika” newspaper and former director of the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law’s Aktobe office, was attacked by five unidentified individuals on 30 December 2004 at 10:00 p.m. (local time) near his home in Aktobe. The attackers asked him, “Are you Andrey Klimonov?”, […]
(Adil Soz/IFEX) – Andrey Klimonov, a freelance reporter for “Respublika” newspaper and former director of the Kazakhstan Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law’s Aktobe office, was attacked by five unidentified individuals on 30 December 2004 at 10:00 p.m. (local time) near his home in Aktobe. The attackers asked him, “Are you Andrey Klimonov?”, and then beat him. They ran away when they heard Klimonov’s neighbour fire a tear gas canister. The neighbour took the journalist home.
Klimonov is in hospital with compromised liver function. The attackers did not rob Klimonov’s mobile phone or any money. The reporter believes the attack was related to an article he published in “Respublika”. He sees no reason to file a police report.
