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, […]
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 […]
The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan proposes to expand the categories of cases considered by the court with the participation of jurors from 14 to 44. The relevant Regulatory Policy Advisory Document to the Draft Law “On amendments and additions to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan to expand the categories of cases […]
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 […]
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev addressed a message to the people of the republic, in which he spoke about the causes and consequences of the tragic January events. Among other things, the head of state confirmed that the policemen of the country used torture against the detained rioters. “About two thousand people were detained for […]
Human rights activist Ayman Umarova appealed to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, with a request to exclude employees of the National Security Committee from the interdepartmental investigative-operational group investigating the events of bloody January in Kazakhstan. She also asked that the cases pending in the NSC be withdrawn and transferred to another body, since […]
The Center for Investigation of the January events in Kazakhstan is collecting documents and evidence from detainees and relatives who were killed during the January rallies. Members of the Center, headed by Zhasaral Kuanyshalin, travel to the cities where the riots took place and meet with eyewitnesses of those events and victims. According to Kuanyshalin, […]
The Prosecutor General’s Office keeps under special control the issue of observance of the rights of detainees during the January mass riots. Serik Shalabaev, Head of the Criminal Prosecution Service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, stated this at an extended meeting of the Department’s Collegium. According to him, following the results of the January tragedy, […]
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