About 700 complaints of torture and violence are registered in Kazakhstan every year. In 2020, 63 criminal offenses were registered and 13 people were convicted under the article Torture. Such data are contained in the consolidated report of the participants of the National Preventive Mechanism based on the results of preventive visits carried out in […]
Laws designed to combat terrorism and extremism in Kazakhstan are used not for their intended purpose but to suppress civil society and hold dozens of political prisoners in custody. These findings are contained in the report “Protecting Defenders 2021: How to Improve the Infrastructure for Assisting Human Rights Defenders at Risk”. The report was published […]
On September 23, the leader of the human rights organization Human Rights House, Agzam Turgunov, along with other founders, filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice in response to the eighth refusal to officially register the nongovernmental organization, issued on August 28, 2021. International Partnership for Human Rights ”(IPHR, Belgium) and the Association for […]
The director of the Suzak nursing home for the elderly put pressure on the journalist, who accidentally witnessed the harsh treatment of the residents of the institution. The journalist came to the care house to prepare material for the International Day of Elderly Persons. A media representative filmed the director’s rude treatment of one of […]
A citizen addressed the Authorized Representative of the Ombudsman for Issyk-Kul region, who said that she was attacked and beaten by two operatives and one interrogator of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Karakol, as a result of which she, who at the time of the attack was pregnant, had a miscarriage. In particular, […]
In the capital of Kazakhstan, the trial in the case of the former vice-minister of finance Ruslan Ensebayev accused of taking a bribe on a large scale has ended. Recall, as ACCA has already reported, along with Ensebaev, there were three more people in the dock – the former deputy chairman of the Information Committee […]
The case of the beating of the witnesses in the case of bribery by the employees of the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs was tried to cover up. The situation changed after the intervention of the Ombudsman. The human rights defenders were approached by the applicant, who reported about the insult and beating by […]
The National Center for the Prevention of Torture of Kyrgyzstan appealed to Prosecutor General Kurmankul Zulushev regarding the court decision to transfer the ex-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Kursan Asanov to pre-trial detention center № 50. As noted in the appeal, the employees of the National Center for the Prevention of Torture, when conducting preventive […]
In Almaty, a closed trial is underway in the case of thirteen civil activists accused of participating in the activities of the unregistered movements DCK (Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan) and Koshe Partyasy, which are recognized as extremist and banned by Kazakhstani courts. In the dock – Noyan Rakhimzhanov, Diana Baimagambetova, Klyshev Kairat, Zheksebaev Askhat, Dzhumaniyazova […]
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