Free Media Online » Kazakhstan http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog Supporting free media worldwide Sun, 13 May 2012 20:54:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Kazakhstan – Kazkhstan http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/03/12/kazakhstan-kazkhstan/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/03/12/kazakhstan-kazkhstan/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:30:13 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=15195 Reporters Without Borders Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) – Read in Russian / читать по-русски Казахстан 2012 Kazakhstan, which considers itself a regional model after holding the rotating presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010, seems to be straying from its fine promises to embark without detours on the road to cybercensorship. In 2011, a unprecedented social protest movement prolonged by a violent uprising, a wave of odd attacks and the Head of State’s health problems made the authorities even more nervous, causing them to tighten their control over information, especially online

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/03/12/kazakhstan-kazkhstan/feed/ 0 CPJ urges Kazakhstan to stop repressing media http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/17/cpj-urges-kazakhstan-to-stop-repressing-media/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/17/cpj-urges-kazakhstan-to-stop-repressing-media/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:57:46 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=14552 Committee to Protect Journalists Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Dear President Nazarbayev: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the ongoing crackdown by Kazakhstan’s security service, the KNB, against independent journalists. The imprisonment of Vzglyad editor Igor Vinyavsky and interrogations of independent reporters by KNB agents appear to be reprisals for critical reporting on government policies, including a December 2011 confrontation in which authorities killed civilians.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/17/cpj-urges-kazakhstan-to-stop-repressing-media/feed/ 0 Kazakhstan – Make rights key to good relations, says Human Rights Watch http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-make-rights-key-to-good-relations-says-human-rights-watch/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-make-rights-key-to-good-relations-says-human-rights-watch/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:12:29 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=14126 IFEX International Freedom of Expression eXchange International Freedom of Expression eXchange: The rights organisation is concerned about the violent crackdown on protesters and online censorship that occurred following a strike in the oil-rich town of Zhanaozen.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-make-rights-key-to-good-relations-says-human-rights-watch/feed/ 0 Kazakhstan – Twenty-nine IFEX members call for release of independent newspaper editor http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-twenty-nine-ifex-members-call-for-release-of-independent-newspaper-editor/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-twenty-nine-ifex-members-call-for-release-of-independent-newspaper-editor/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:10:33 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=14153 IFEX International Freedom of Expression eXchange International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Twenty-nine IFEX members have signed a letter to the Prosecutor General about the detention of editor Igor Vinyavsky, whose detention is believed to be politically motivated, calling for him to be released and for the evidence leading to his arrest to be made public.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2012/02/08/kazakhstan-twenty-nine-ifex-members-call-for-release-of-independent-newspaper-editor/feed/ 0 Kazakhstan – Authorities harass independent online TV station, close studio — IFEX http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/10/03/kazakhstan-authorities-harass-independent-online-tv-station-close-studio/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/10/03/kazakhstan-authorities-harass-independent-online-tv-station-close-studio/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:30:50 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=11837 IFEX International Freedom of Expression eXchange International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Harassment of Stan TV and the independent news agency Namystan intensified after they covered an unprecedented strike by oil workers in the western province of Mangystau that was violently suppressed by the authorities.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/10/03/kazakhstan-authorities-harass-independent-online-tv-station-close-studio/feed/ 0 Upheld Sentence for Kazakhstani Lawyer a Miscarriage of Justice — Freedom House http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/09/28/upheld-sentence-for-kazakhstani-lawyer-a-miscarriage-of-justice/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/09/28/upheld-sentence-for-kazakhstani-lawyer-a-miscarriage-of-justice/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:47:42 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=11696 Freedom HouseFreedom House: Freedom House condemns the decision today by a Kazakhstani appellate court to uphold the guilty verdict against Natalya Sokolova, the lawyer for the trade union of the oil company Karazhanbasmunay.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/09/28/upheld-sentence-for-kazakhstani-lawyer-a-miscarriage-of-justice/feed/ 0 Freedom House Releases Report: "Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On" http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/08/22/freedom-house-releases-report-promise-and-reversal-the-post-soviet-landscape-twenty-years-on/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/08/22/freedom-house-releases-report-promise-and-reversal-the-post-soviet-landscape-twenty-years-on/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:14:03 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=10373 Freedom HouseFreedom House: Freedom House today launched a web feature presenting its latest special report, ‘Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,’ to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. The feature includes a retrospective essay examining changes in the state of political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well as graphs and rankings that illustrate the region’s performance in the annual Freedom House publications Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/08/22/freedom-house-releases-report-promise-and-reversal-the-post-soviet-landscape-twenty-years-on/feed/ 0 Attacks on the Press 2010: Kazakhstan http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/15/attacks-on-the-press-2010-kazakhstan/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/15/attacks-on-the-press-2010-kazakhstan/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:13:38 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=8088 Committee to Protect Journalists Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) –

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• New laws restrict online news media, shield government officials from scrutiny.
• OSCE chairman Kazakhstan undermines organization with repression at home.


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Defamation complaints filed in first six months of 2010, many of them by government officials.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s government failed to deliver the press freedom reforms it had promised in exchange for gaining 2010 chairmanship of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE. Not only did the government renege on explicit pledges to decriminalize libel and bring press laws in line with international standards, it enacted a restrictive new measure governing Internet content and a sweeping privacy law that shielded government officials from public scrutiny.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/15/attacks-on-the-press-2010-kazakhstan/feed/ 0 Kazakhstan – Legislative amendments fall short of decriminalising defamation, says Adil Soz http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/01/kazakhstan-legislative-amendments-fall-short-of-decriminalising-defamation-says-adil-soz/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/01/kazakhstan-legislative-amendments-fall-short-of-decriminalising-defamation-says-adil-soz/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:17:27 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=7847 IFEX International Freedom of Expression eXchange International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Adil Soz believes recent Criminal Code amendments serve to diminish some penalties but do not sufficiently address the issue of criminalisation of defamation.

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/02/01/kazakhstan-legislative-amendments-fall-short-of-decriminalising-defamation-says-adil-soz/feed/ 0 Kazakhstan – Copies of opposition weekly seized, journalists arrested http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/01/24/kazakhstan-copies-of-opposition-weekly-seized-journalists-arrested/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/01/24/kazakhstan-copies-of-opposition-weekly-seized-journalists-arrested/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:13:56 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=7717 Reporters Without Borders Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) – Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of harassment of news media and journalists critical of a proposed referendum that would allow President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled since 1989, to continue in office until 2020 without having to run for reelection in 2012. “This attempt to perpetuate a dictatorial regime in flagrant violation of basic democratic principles is liable to be accompanied by more repression of critical media and a sharp deterioration in freedom of expression,” Reporters Without Borders said. “As Nazarbayev himself is officially said to be opposed to the referendum, it is astonishing that all those who try to criticize it are immediately silenced.” The press freedom organization added: “The European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, of which Kazakhstan held the rotatating presidency in 2010, must move urgently to protect media freedom and to press the Kazakh authorities to stop all forms of abusive treatment of journalists.” The idea of a national referendum to extend the president’s mandate was launched by a group of Nazarbayev supporters in December and was adopted unanimously by parliament on 14 January

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]]> http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2011/01/24/kazakhstan-copies-of-opposition-weekly-seized-journalists-arrested/feed/ 0 Fresh appeal for Zhovtis | National Endowment for Democracy – NED http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2010/09/09/fresh-appeal-for-zhovtis-national-endowment-for-democracy-ned/ http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/2010/09/09/fresh-appeal-for-zhovtis-national-endowment-for-democracy-ned/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:12:27 +0000 Free Media Online http://freemediaonline.org/freemediaonlineblog/?p=5065 National Endowment for Democracy LogoDemocracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A group of leading democracy advocates today signed an open letter asking Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge Kazakhstan’s leaders to free human rights activist Yevgeniy Zhovtis from imprisonment. Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in

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