Committee to Protect Journalists: Kazakh Journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov Jailed on Criminal Libel Charges
October 18, 2019
October 18, 2019
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Kazakhstan authorities should immediately release journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov, drop all charges against him, and allow him to work freely and safely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On September 23, a district court in Saryagash, a town in southern Kazakhstan, sentenced Batyrbekov, chief editor of the Saryagash-based daily newspaper S-Inform, to two years and three . . .
Kazakhstan authorities should immediately release journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov, drop all charges against him, and allow him to work freely and safely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On September 23, a district court in Saryagash, a town in southern Kazakhstan, sentenced Batyrbekov, chief editor of the Saryagash-based daily newspaper S-Inform, to two years and three . . .