Kazakhstan - Opposition journalist seriously wounded in vicious attack outside his home

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is in shock after a near-fatal attack on the eminent journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov yesterday evening outside his home in the suburbs of the northwestern city of Uralsk. “Our thoughts are with the journalist and his family and colleagues,” the press freedom organization said. “With this attack, which was particularly shocking in its violence and without precedent in Kazakhstan's recent history, the continual deterioration in freedom of news and information in the past (...)

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