Egov.Press
Egov.Press is a non-governmental Kazakh petition website launched in 2020. The project was created by five citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan at their own expense to develop the institution of petitions in the state. The organization's employees are located in Kazakhstan and for security reasons do not reveal their identities. In Kazakhstan, petitions on the website egov.press are used to create public outcry because the initiatives launched do not have legal force.[1][2][3] The very first petition on the site was published in October 2021.[4][5] From July 25 to November 8, 2022, the site was visited by more than 539.7 thousand people. During this time, the authorities partially satisfied five out of ten socially important petitions published on the website.[6]
Petitions published on the websites egov.press and alash.online about Kazakhstan's withdrawal from the CSTO,[7] against the treatment of drug addicts with the drug "Methadone", increasing the size of disability benefits, and opening advertising for Kazakh language centers[8] are still under discussion in magazines and books.[9]
In 2022, following a court order surrounding accusations of the site being fake, the site was moved to the alash.online domain.[10]
Petitions published on the alash.online website were included in the top 5 most popular in Kazakhstan according to the editors of Massaget.kz.[11] On January 22, 2022, a petition appeared on the website demanding permission to wear headscarves for schoolgirls in Kazakhstan. In one day, the initiative received 20,250 signatures and 2 days later, for unknown reasons, it was removed from the site.[12]
Criticism
The channel Astana TV filmed a report in which it talks about "false petitions" published on the egov.press website and calls for the creation of a domestic platform.[13]
In 2022, Kazakh journalist Yuri Masanov said that the egovpress petition website was fake.[14] After the journalist's publication, the egov.press website was blocked on June 20, 2022, by a court decision in Kazakhstan.[10] After blocking, the petition site egov.press moved to a new domain alash.online.
In June 2023, the international foundation for freedom of speech protection Adil Soz included the egov.press website in the list of violations of freedom of speech in Kazakhstan.[15]
References
- ↑ https://alash.online/uploads/rules.html
- ↑ https://spik.kz/1775-peticii-na-sajte-alash-online-prakticheski-ni-na-chto-ne-vlijajut-tak-li-jeto.html
- ↑ https://liter.kz/petitsii-v-kazakhstane-rabotaiut-no-ne-tak-kak-my-schitaem-1643696504/
- ↑ https://aikyn.kz/181297/petitsiya-aytar-datym-bar
- ↑ https://informburo.kz/kaz/elaynasy/qazaqstanda-onlain-peticiya-nege-natize-bermeidi
- ↑ http://rmebrk.kz/assets/pdfjs2/web/viewer.html?file=/journals/7972/2619.pdf
- ↑ https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Kazakhstan-reforms-meet-skepticism-in-shadow-of-Russia-s-war
- ↑ https://journalsr.kubsu.ru/article/view/183
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=uQvjEAAAQBAJ
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mam/report-internet-content?lang=en
- ↑ https://massaget.kz/basty-zhaalytar-438/87994/
- ↑ https://adilet-gazeti.kz/петиция-күн-сайын-бір-шағым-жазылады/
- ↑ https://astanatv.kz/ru/news/66308/
- ↑ https://baigenews.kz/kazakhstanskiy_zhurnalist_obvinil_sayt_petitsiy_v_nakrutke_126317/
- ↑ https://adilsoz.kz/monthly-monitoring/narusheniya-svobody-slova-v-kazahstane-iyun-2023-goda.html
