The General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan was unable to establish during the investigation the circle of persons involved in the torture of the Kyrgyz jazzman Vikram Ruzakhunov. In order to still identify the perpetrators, the supervisory authority invited the musician to Kazakhstan, promising to provide him with protection. Recall, as ACCA has already reported, Vikram […]
Nursultan Musulmankulov, a resident of the East Kazakhstan region, once worked as an operative of the regime department in the colony of strict regime OV-156/2, located in Ust-Kamenogorsk. As it turned out, while working, he used torture on prisoners. When Musulmankulov resigned from a strict regime colony, there was not a word in the court […]
The course towards the construction of New Kazakhstan, announced by the second President of the country Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, implies the need to purge the imperious Olympus from the old guard, inherited from the first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev. ACCA has repeatedly reported on the detentions and arrests of people who are close friends of Nursultan Nazarbayev, […]
While the authorities of the country from high tribunes announce the construction of New Kazakhstan, the rights of civil activists who participated in the January events continue to be infringed. ACCA has already reported on the administrative arrest for 15 days of activist Kosai Makhanbaev, who was shot during the January rallies and then, after […]
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 […]
As of May 17, 164 reports of torture and other forms of illegal treatment were received by the Coalition of non-governmental organizations of Kazakhstan against Torture, which monitors the situation in the investigation of cases of torture as a result of the January events. According to the Coalition, 11 reports concerned torture or cruel treatment […]
Timur Isakov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, who built a catering point of sale for a Kazakh entrepreneur, not only didn’t receive money for his work, but was also tortured by the police. According to the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights (KIBHR), Timur Isakov arrived in Almaty for work. He had all the necessary documents, […]
375 criminal cases on torture were under investigation in March. Such data are provided in the consolidated report on registered criminal offenses of the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Records under the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan. Out of 375 crimes under the article “Torture”, 343 were registered in the reporting period, and 308 […]
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