Kazakhstan - Increasingly suffocating climate for media freedom

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the decline in media freedom in Kazakhstan, with arrests and trials of critical journalists and bloggers and the adoption of legislative tools that allow the authorities to tighten their grip on the media. Another opposition newspaper closed Part of the premises of the opposition Assandi Times newspaper was placed under seal yesterday, a day after the newspaper was banned by a court in Almaty, the economic capital, in a hearing without any (...)

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