Trials in the case of participants in the January trials have ended in the East Kazakhstan region. 11 residents of Ust-Kamenogorsk got off with suspended sentences for participating in mass riots and illegal possession of drugs. 4 of them received three years of probation, 7 more received 4 years of probation. But the 12th defendant […]
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes that it’s necessary to show humanism and forgive the participants in the protests that took place in January 2022 in some large cities of the republic. The head of state stated this in his annual message to the people of the country. According to Tokayev, the days of ‘Tragic […]
A protest was held in the capital of Kazakhstan near the building of the EU embassy. Relatives of those detained and tortured, as well as relatives of those who died during the January riots, called on European politicians to demand that the Kazakh authorities conduct an independent international investigation into the January events. The reason […]
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 […]
Kazakhstan is actively fighting human trafficking. According to Kanat Nurmagambetov, Acting Head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 100 criminal cases of this category are initiated annually by law enforcement agencies. For example, in December last year, 17 members of a transnational criminal group involved in human […]
Activists staged an unsanctioned rally on the birthday of the first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and recalled all his crimes. Law enforcement officers detained all the participants and took them to the police station. On July 6, Kazakhstan officially celebrates the Day of the Capital since it was on this day in 1994 that a decision […]
The Anti-Corruption Agency revealed the fact of human trafficking in the Department of Employment and Social Programs Coordination under the Mayor’s Office of Kostanay region. As noted in the report, the Department’s officials are suspected of transferring an incapable citizen M., who was under the care of the state in one of the social institutions […]
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 […]
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