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UK investigative outlets have crowdfunded £40k to fight lawsuit
TBIJ and openDemocracy are crowdfunding to help them finance a legal battle designed to silence their public interest reporting on the former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. The campaign, set up to raise £40,000, met the initial target in just a month with donations coming from 1,200 contributors.
Rozina Breen, editor-in-chief and CEO of TBIJ told Journalism.co.uk: “Public interest investigations are essential to a functioning and transparent democracy. We have been humbled and gratified at the phenomenal interest in our crowdfund campaign alongside openDemocracy.”
TBIJ, together with openDemocracy and The Daily Telegraph, published an investigation in February this year alleged Nazarbayev held billions in assets in a UK-registered company, Jusan Technologies, with just one employee. The Nazarbayev Fund and Jusan Technologies claim the article is inaccurate and defamatory.
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