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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The court rescinded the order it issued a week earlier banning all of the Kazakh media from publishing any information that could damage the reputation of President Nursultan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 intimidation has ended,” Reporters Without Borders said. “But it has caused a great deal of damage both in financial terms, because of the all the newspapers that were seized, and in terms of the fear that has been cast over all the media. The financial losses must be compensated and a closer watch must be...
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Kyrgyzstan journalist Gennady Pavlyuk, who was thrown from a sixth floor window in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 16 December, died today in hospital.
Reporters Without Borders expressed its deep sympathy with his family and colleagues.
“Ten days ahead of taking over the presidency of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Kazakh authorities cannot allow a murder like this to go unpunished and the Kyrgyz side must cooperate in resolving this case”, the organisation said.
A known independent, the editor of Bely Parus online version was found unconscious at the foot of a building in the heart of the Kazakh financial capital, on 16 December. Police confirmed he had his hands and feet bound.
(Photo : ferghana.ru)
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