Political Prisoner in Kazakhstan Faces Pressure Ahead of Due Conditional Release (IFN, 11 October 2005)

New York, May 10, 2005 – CPJ condemns the closure of the leading opposition weekly Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye (Republic Business Review) by The Kazakh Culture, Information, and Sports Ministry. (CPJ, 10 May 2005)

Reporters Without Borders has protested in a letter to the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev against the Kazakh authorities' decision to close opposition weekly Respublika and its sister papers Respublika Delovoe Obozrenie and Respublika Analitichesky Ezhenedelnik. (RSF, 6 May 2005)

The chief editor of Kazakhstan’s main opposition newspaper Respublika, Irina Petrushova, has been detained in Russia on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the request of the Kazakh financial police. (IFN, 24 April 2005)

The leader of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan opposition party, Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, is to be transferred from Kustanaisky prison where he is currently being held in an apparent concession to domestic and international anger over his plight. (IFN, 12 August 2004)

A court in Kazakhstan has fined prominent independent newspaper Assandi Times US$370,000 and frozen its publisher’s assets for ‘defaming the presidential administration’ just weeks before landmark democratic elections in the oil-rich Central Asian state. (IFN, 19 July 2004)