Unknown people sent a box of meat and a photo of the editor-in-chief’s children to the editorial office of the Kazakhstani edition of Ulysmedia.kz. Editor-in-Chief Samal Ibrayeva told the Kazakh service of Radio Liberty about this.
The police officers who arrived at the editorial office took fingerprints from the box and forbade taking pictures of it.
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“Although the President gave instructions (to investigate cases of attacks on newsrooms and journalists in Kazakhstan), they have not yet found out who (behind this) is behind this, who is doing all this against me. And before that, how many times I faced persecution,” said Samal Ibrayeva journalists.
The editor-in-chief of Ulysmedia.kz stated that she assessed the incident as “an attempt to intimidate the editors.”
In January, Samal Ibrayeva reported on her telegram channel that the publication’s website had been hacked. She stated that personal photos of her and her family appeared on the site, which had not been published anywhere before, as well as personal data of her daughters’ passports.
“We’ve been scratching our heads for half a year, trying to figure out who Ulys crossed the path to – all the names were sorted out – well, there are no suitable candidates for villains in the list of characters in our materials who could go to such meanness. I’m starting to think that it was not without the participation of special services,” Ibrayeva wrote in a statement to the editors.
