Kazakhstan: Ensure Journalist Gets Fair Appeal

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Daniyar Adilbekov sitting in the defendants’ box at trial in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 2024 © 2024 Private (Berlin, November 28, 2024) – The authorities in Kazakhstan should ensure a fair appeals process for an investigative journalist who has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison on criminal charges for allegedly disseminating false information, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kazakh authorities should revise such laws to ensure that no other journalists are jailed for exercising their right to free speech.The Astana City Interdistrict Criminal…

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