Kazakhstan: media worker prevented from covering protesters' detention
Event- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Initial Date
- Jan 10, 2021
- Event Description
In Nur-Sultan Azattyk correspondent Saniya Toiken reported facing obstacles from the security forces while covering the detention of civic activists who the police accused of holding an unsanctioned protest against the unfair elections. The police detained the activists and took them in a minibus to the police station. Toiken reported that one police officer forcibly took away her phone, damaging it in the process and deleting several items from its memory before returning it to her.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Judicial Harassment
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Media Worker
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 51.15499712119927
Longitude: 71.46538431413667
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 10 January 2021, Saniya Toiken, media worker, had her phone forcefully seized by the police who delete the photos she took of detained protsters during the elections in Nur-Sultan, Kazahstan.