Seytkazy Matayev Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Kazakh journalists face years in prison on retaliatory charges

September 30, 2016 3:28 PM EDT

New York, September 30, 2016– Kazakh authorities should immediately drop all charges against Seytkazy Matayev, head of the Kazakh Journalists’ Union and chair of the National Press Club of Kazakhstan, and his son Aset Matayev, director of the independent news agency KazTag, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. A verdict in their trial is…

Head of Kazakh journalists’ union detained

February 22, 2016 5:21 PM EST

New York, February 22, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by today’s detention of Seytkazy Matayev, head of the Kazakh Journalists’ Union and the chair of National Press Club, in Almaty.