In Kazakhstan, the purge of the highest echelons of power from proteges of the old system of the era of Nursultan Nazarbayev continues. The next victims of this work were the ex-deputy chairman of the National Security Committee – Director of the Border Service, Lieutenant General Darkhan Dilmanov, and the head of Nur Zholy Border […]
The Anti-Corruption Agency was so desperate to find and detain the former police chief of Pavlodar region Nurlan Masimov that they even offered a reward for any information on his whereabouts. As ACCA has already reported, Nurlan Massimov is the cousin of the former Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, who […]
Kosai Makhambaev received 15 days of administrative arrest for allegedly organizing an illegal rally near the building of the City Prosecutor’s Office in Almaty. As ACCA has already reported, on the morning of June 1, relatives of those killed and arrested during the January events, as well as the victims themselves, gathered near the Prosecutor’s […]
In Almaty, a small unsanctioned rally was held near the building of the City Prosecutor’s Office. The victims and relatives of those killed and arrested during the January events came to demand a fair investigation and punish those who killed the protesters and those who tortured the detainees. About 40 people gathered near the Prosecutor’s […]
In Kazakhstan, former police chief of Pavlodar region Nurlan Masimov has been put on the wanted list. And the police of Almaty detained a deputy of the local representative body, Kairat Kudaibergen. Nurlan Masimov is the cousin of the former chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov. As ACCA has already reported, […]
Kazakhstan continues to investigate the January riots. Sanzhar Adilov, head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said at a briefing in Nur-Sultan that the cases of more than 400 accused of participating in the January events were sent to court. “Today, the internal affairs bodies have done a lot of work […]
The Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan has developed a new Plan for further action in the field of human rights and the rule of law. The draft Plan has been posted for public comment on the open regulations portal. As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the new Plan was developed in accordance […]
Eight employees of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan and one police officer were detained for using illegal methods of investigation against detainees during the January protests. As Yeldos Kilymzhanov, deputy head of the First Service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, said at a briefing, special prosecutors are investigating the ten most high-profile cases of […]
The investigation into the facts of torture of persons detained during and after the January events in Kazakhstan is conducted inefficiently. This statement was made by human rights activists represented by the Kazakhstan’s Coalition of non-governmental organizations against torture and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR). According to a report published by human rights […]
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