13.03.2026 15:04:00
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Kazakhstan’s Financial Monitoring Agency (AFM) has published draft Rules that set out procedures for monitoring the information space to identify unlawful content. The document details how existing norms on restricting access to illegal information online will be enforced, as well as penalties for its distribution.
The legal basis is the Law “On Crime Prevention,” which grants AFM authority to conduct regular internet monitoring to prevent crimes and offenses.
Monitoring will cover websites, social networks, messengers, media outlets, and other communication platforms. The Rules do not list specific banned topics but provide AFM with tools to detect them. Under the law, materials subject to blocking include: terrorism, extremism, separatism propaganda; calls to violence, cruelty, suicide; pornography; drug advertising; fraud; and content undermining interethnic or interfaith harmony.
Statements questioning Kazakhstan’s statehood or territorial integrity, disclosure of state secrets, or other legally prohibited information also fall under monitoring.
Chapter 3 outlines AFM’s response: notifying the media regulator for immediate blocking and forwarding cases to law enforcement for administrative or criminal proceedings. Lawmakers stressed that not only authors but also those reposting banned content may face liability.
Public discussion of the draft runs until March 20, 2026.
The legal basis is the Law “On Crime Prevention,” which grants AFM authority to conduct regular internet monitoring to prevent crimes and offenses.
Monitoring will cover websites, social networks, messengers, media outlets, and other communication platforms. The Rules do not list specific banned topics but provide AFM with tools to detect them. Under the law, materials subject to blocking include: terrorism, extremism, separatism propaganda; calls to violence, cruelty, suicide; pornography; drug advertising; fraud; and content undermining interethnic or interfaith harmony.
Statements questioning Kazakhstan’s statehood or territorial integrity, disclosure of state secrets, or other legally prohibited information also fall under monitoring.
Chapter 3 outlines AFM’s response: notifying the media regulator for immediate blocking and forwarding cases to law enforcement for administrative or criminal proceedings. Lawmakers stressed that not only authors but also those reposting banned content may face liability.
Public discussion of the draft runs until March 20, 2026.
