Международная правозащитная организация Article19, которая направлена на защиту и содействие свободе выражения мнений и свободе информации, сделала заявление по делу осужденного журналиста Данияра Адилбекова:

Kazakhstan: Release Adilbekov and repeal the ‘false information’ law   The Specialised Interdistrict Criminal Court of Astana has sentenced Kazakh journalist Daniyar Adilbekov to imprisonment for disseminating ‘false information’. This verdict marks yet another troubling example of the ongoing crackdown on media freedom in Kazakhstan. ARTICLE 19 calls on the authorities to uphold media freedoms  and to strengthen protections for the right to report on matters of public interest. Daniyar Adilbekov must be released, and the charges against him dropped. In mid-October, journalist Daniyar Adilbekov was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for ‘knowingly false denunciation and ‘dissemination of knowingly false information’. The charges stemmed from his publications on a Telegram channel alleging corruption involving the chairman of the board of Astana airport, Yusuf Rashed Aljavder, and the editor-in-chief of El Media, Gulzhan Yergaliyeva.