Article 20. Rights of a journalist

Journalist shall have the right:

1) to accomplish research, request , receive and disseminate information;

2) to visit government agencies, organizations with all forms of ownership and to be received by their officials in relation to maintenance of their business responsibilities, be present at all events held by agency that accredited the journalist excluding events when a decision was made to hold a private event;

3) to make recordings including use of audiovisual equipment, cinema and photo shooting except events prohibited by legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

4) to be allowed upon presentation of journalist’s credentials in the regions of natural disasters, at meetings and demonstrations and at events with other forms of expressing public, group and personal interests and protest;

5) to have access to documents and materials except their fragments containing data that is a state secret;

6) to check trustworthiness of received information;

7) to address specialists when checking received information materials;

8) to disseminate his/her messages and materials under his/her signature and conditional name (pseudonym);

9) to refuse to publish material under his/her signature if its contents after editing contradicts his/her personal beliefs;

10) to keep the secret of copyright and information sources except for events when these secrets are published at court’s demand.