The private company “EPO Operator”, which was engaged in the collection of recycling fees for cars in Kazakhstan, was transferred to the ownership of the state under a donation agreement. That is, it was actually nationalized. Before the nationalization, according to rumors, the company belonged (and no one denied it) to Aliya Nazarbayeva (the youngest […]
The website of the online edition HOLA News, access to which has been blocked for more than 10 days, is back online. This happened right after the editorial office removed the previously published news that the unofficial wife of the first president of Kazakhstan earned $ 30 million from a secret offshore deal. The story […]
37.8% of Kazakhstani children are aware that they have rights. Moreover, more than half of the survey participants (57%) know that they have some rights, but do not know which ones. Such data are contained in the draft of the fifth and sixth consolidated periodic report on the implementation by the Republic of Kazakhstan of […]
For eight days, the head of the temporary detention center in Zaamin district of Jizakh region beat and raped the woman under investigation. Having launched an investigation into the initiated criminal case, the local Prosecutor’s Office is trying to ignore the facts of sexual violence and is conducting an investigation under Article 205 (“Abuse of […]
According to the complaints of the imprisoned citizen of Tajikistan Mirmahmad Kurbonov against the employees of the colony with charges of bullying and torture, three criminal cases were initiated, but none of the perpetrators was punished. Mirmahmad Kurbonov, although he is a citizen of Tajikistan, has been living in Kazakhstan for a long time. In […]
The UN Working group on arbitrary detention (UN WGAD) has urged the authorities of Uzbekistan to immediately release 69-year-old Kadyr Yusupov with adequate compensation. Concerned about Yusupov’s continued imprisonment, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Helsinki Foundation for Human […]
The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA) issued a statement in defense of Alexander Trofimov, a 29-year-old father of two children and registered with a disability. On May 6 and 7, 2021, he was tortured and ill-treated by operational officers of the Chilanzar District Department […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council has caught Kazakhstan in another violation of international human rights law. This was stated by the working group on arbitrary detention, which studied the circumstances of the arrest and conviction of the civil activist from the Kazakh city of Zhanaozen Yerzhan Elshibaev. Yerzhan Elshibaev organized protests in early 2019, […]
The lawyer of the blogger Miraziz Bazarov, Sergei Mayorov, told the details of the criminal cases against his client in the interview. The name of Miraziz Bazarov has recently been quoted not only on social networks and in the media. Interest in this blogger is growing due to the fact that Bazarov openly spoke about […]
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