New Mass Media Law Threatens Freedom of Speech, Information in Kazakhstan

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A cameraman from the "TV & Radio Team of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan" films during the German-Kazakh Economic Forum, Astana, Kazakhstan, June 20, 2023. © 2023 Jens B'ttner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Although Kazakhstan’s new mass media law has some amendments that should improve the status quo, its ambiguity and the restrictive nature of other provisions threaten to create obstacles to the work of local and foreign journalists.The law, which President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev signed on June 19, supersedes the laws on media and on…

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