Kazakhstan - Leading independent Kazakh newspaper at centre of major media crackdown

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by the growing crackdown on independent journalists in Kazakhstan “The authorities, even more paranoid as a result of riots in Janaozen in December, are using the security argument as a pretext to step up their crackdown on the media,” the press freedom organization said. “After Stan TV and Vzglyad, Golos Respubliki is once again at the centre of the storm. Independent journalism as a whole is being targeted by a government unable to reassert (...)

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