"Kazakhstan shuts down opposition Web sites" - European Journalism Centre

This is the same country that puts on a big media conference every year that many western media leaders have attended in the past. I would wonder why anyone would want to participate in something that the same government wants to do, such as the media conference. Rather this strikes me as an opportunity if not a responsibility for those same media leaders to speak up in opposition. If they do not, was there a price for their silence? Some of the sponsors of the Eurasian Media Forum appear here.