The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan published on its website a list of citizens who died during the January riots. The list consists of 238 surnames.
As noted in the supervisory authority, the list includes both innocent citizens and criminals.
“We are looking into every detail. To date, the circumstances of the death have been established and the investigation continues on 176 persons,” Yeldos Kilymzhanov, deputy head of the criminal prosecution service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, explained at a briefing.
It should be noted that apart from the names, there is no other information on the list: neither age, nor nationality, nor place of registration and residence, or causes of death. According to Kilymzhanov, this is the “first” list of its kind.
Recall that in early January, protests were held in a number of cities and regions of Kazakhstan, caused by an alleged increase in gas prices. Then the riots spread to Almaty. A state of emergency was introduced in the country.
The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, called these riots an attempt to coup and seize power, the people involved – terrorists and gave the command to shoot to kill.
After the suppression of riots across the country, arrests of participants began. The detainees were brutally tortured: they beat them with truncheons, forced them to stand barefoot and sleep on the cold floor, burned them with an iron, and did not provide medical assistance. Even children were tortured.
According to the results of the investigation, 15 employees of special and law enforcement agencies are suspected of using unlawful methods of investigation. At the same time, nine of them are already in custody.
At the same time, the authorities of the country have not yet published a list of persons who were tortured, despite the fact that more than eight months have passed since the tragic events.
