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{{Infobox TV channel
 | name                       = Information channel 16/12
 | logofile                   = Телеканал 1612.jpg
 | country                    = Kazakhstan
 | broadcast area             = Internet
 | language                   = [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]
 | picture format             = 16:9, [[HDTV]] 720p
 | launch                     = 27 June 2013
 | web                        = https://www.youtube.com/1612TV
}}
'''TV channel 16/12''' — is the only independent news TV channel in Kazakhstan.

== Persecution of the Channel ==

The Kazakhstan’s authorities have repeatedly tried to stop the  broadcasting of Channel 16/12. The Channel’s employees were intimidated, arrested, their offices were searched and the equipment needed for their work seized. Specifically, in 2014, officers of the [[National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan|National Security Committee]] of Kazakhstan, along with law enforcement officers of Russia, burst into the office of the production company which was making videos for the TV Channel 16/12.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmIyYrrbjw|title = ЕEС Work Starts with Repressions|author = |date = May 30, 2014|publisher = TV Channel 1612}}</ref> They conducted a search, withdrew hard discs from the operating computers and took them away. Soon after that, a similar search was  conducted in the Astana office of a company which was also making videos for the opposition channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://rus.azattyq.org/content/news/25415251.html|title = Search in Internet Channel "1612" under way|author = Orken ZHOYAMERGEN|date = June 9, 2014|publisher = Radio Azattyk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byi_46vc6qE|title = Search in Astana Office of 1612|author = Sanat Urnaliyev|date = June 9, 2014|publisher = TV Channel 1612}}</ref> During the search, the equipment needed for their work was seized. Prior to this, Sanat Urnaliyev, journalist of TV Channel 16/12, and Viktor Gudz, the cameraman, were subjected to administrative arrest on a fake charge, along with a correspondent of Radio Azattyk, the Kazakh service of the [[Radio Liberty]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcbSqdMNPVs|title = Police Provocation against Anti-Eurasian Headquarters|author = Sanat Urnaliyev|date = June 2, 2014|publisher = TV Channel 1612}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://rus.azattyq.org/content/news/25400935.html|title = Reporter of Azattyk under Arrest|author = Svetlana GLUSHKOVA|date = May 28, 2014|publisher = Radio Azattyk}}</ref>

Other employees of the Channel were repeatedly subjected to administrative arrest on fake charges as well. For instance, Dmitri Schelokov was arrested for 15 days for appearing in front of the administrative Court building to support the arrested journalist Andrei Tsukanov.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://rus.azattyq.org/archive/news/20140221/360/360.html?id=25272194|title = Blogger Dmitri Schelokov Arrested for 15 days|author = |date = February 21, 2014|publisher = Radio Azattyk}}</ref> Prior to this,  Dmitri Schelokov and Rinat Kibrayev had been arrested for 10 days for intending to take part in the meeting with Akim Akhmetzhan Yesimov arranged especially for Almaty bloggers. Apart from blocking the access for the journalists with no reasons offered, they were put behind the bars.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://rus.azattyq.org/content/zaderhanie-blogerov-zayavlenie-usenova/25270352.html|title = Azattyk Bloggers Arrested on the Day of Akim’s Reporting Meeting|author = |date = February 20, 2014|publisher = Radio Azattyk}}</ref>

On 11 July 2014, the Almaty inter-district administrative court sentenced correspondent Andrei Tsukanov to 15 days of arrest for covering the protest action of flat letters against the arbitrariness of police officers. Tsukanov was detained when he was making video recording. During the arrest, the police officers beat Andrei and confiscated his press ID.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://rus.azattyq.org/content/kvartirosdatchiki-protest-almaty/25449917.html|title = Azattyk Flat Letters Complain against Police Pressure|author = |date = July 8, 2014|publisher = Radio Azattyk}}</ref>

== External links ==
* {{YouTube|u=1612TV|{{PAGENAMEBASE}}}}

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