Kazakhstan - Court climbdown interrupts latest government offensive against media

Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday's climbdown by a court in the Almaty district of Medeu as a victory for independent news media and press freedom organisations over a government bid to impose de facto censorship throughout the country. The court rescinded the order it issued a week earlier banning all of the Kazakh media from publishing any information that could damage the reputation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev's son-in-law, businessman Timur Kulibayev. “A campaign of (...)

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