Regional newspaper editor harassed after investigating real estate scandal

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the withdrawal of all proceedings against Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a newspaper editor based in the city of Oral, in western Kazakhstan, who is facing a possible two-year jail sentence for allegedly divulging confidential information about “a preliminary judicial proceeding or a closed-door trial.”The editor of the regional weekly Uralskaya Nedelya, Akhmedyarov has been summoned or detained for q

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