The police of the Turkestan region once again opened a criminal case against the well-known journalist, civil activist, editor of the Saryagash info newspaper Amangeldy Batyrbekov. ASSA has already written about Amangeldy Batyrbekov several times. Recall that in 2015, the Adil Soz International Foundation for the Protection of Freedom of Expression called Batyrbekov a “prisoner […]
In Aktobe, the appellate instance upheld the verdict against civil activist Roman Reichert, who was sentenced to two years of restriction of liberty on charges of insulting a government official. For a resident of the Aktobe region, Roman Reichert, this is not the first acquaintance with the injustice of the judicial system of Kazakhstan. In […]
The Karasai District Court of Almaty region sentenced the former captain of the National Security Committee Sabyrzhan Narymbaev, accused of attempting to rape Aya Umurzakova. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Aya Umurzakova told her story to the public on November 20, 2020. In her video message posted on […]
One more name has been added to the list of political prisoners in Kazakhstan. As ACCA was informed in the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights (KIBHR), on August 10 in Chimkent, a court hearing was held in the case of the previously convicted and suspended sentence civil activist Sabit Syzdykbek. Sabit Syzdykbek was convicted […]
The Expert Council of human rights defenders of Kazakhstan has once again revised the list of political prisoners. This is the fifth revision of the list over the past 9 months. By the decision of the Expert Council, two civil activists, Asylkhan Zhaubatyrov and Erulan Amirov, as well as Bekizhan Mendygaziev, the brother of entrepreneur […]
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 appeal of the journalist Aigul Utepova, sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom, was rejected. The international independent non-profit organization “Committee to Protect Journalists” (CPJ) has already characterized the case of Utepova as another attempt by the authorities of Kazakhstan to suppress political dissent. In 2019, Aigul Utepova created an independent website Aigul […]
Public and political figure Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, who held the post of adviser to the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in 2008-2013, admitted that the arrest of the human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis in 2009 was politically motivated. Yertysbayev made such a statement in an interview with the program “Work on the bugs!” The […]
Well-known human rights activist of Kazakhstan Elena Semyonova, who advocates for the rights of prisoners, continues to be attacked by the country’s penal colonies. Elena Semenova regularly publishes posts on social networks about the lawlessness happening in this or that colony. Moreover, in her publications, she constantly refers to the sources of this information – […]
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