Committee to Protect Journalists: Kazakhstan Decriminalizes Defamation, But Maintains Detentions, Criminal Penalties for Speech Offenses
July 09, 2020
July 09, 2020
NEW YORK, July 9 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Kazakhstan authorities should deepen their reforms on laws affecting the press and ensure that journalists are never jailed for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On June 27, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed into law amendments to the country's criminal and administrative codes that decriminalized defamation, according to mediareports (https://vlast.kz/novosti/4 . . .
Kazakhstan authorities should deepen their reforms on laws affecting the press and ensure that journalists are never jailed for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
On June 27, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed into law amendments to the country's criminal and administrative codes that decriminalized defamation, according to mediareports (https://vlast.kz/novosti/4 . . .