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Human rights movement in Kazakhstan.

Mar 15, 2022, 8 tweets

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Bota Jardemalie:

TORTURE IN SI-18: A GUY WITH A BULLET IN THE STOMACH
The pre-trial detention facility SI-18 turned into a torture machine this year in January.

#Kazakhstan
#ActivistsNotExtremists
#ProtestJanuary2022

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That is where all the people, wounded during the January protests, were brought after being forcibly taken from every hospital in Almaty. One of such abducted patients is Darkhan #DUSIBAYEV.

#Kazakhstanprotests

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Darkhan was brought to the city hospital #7 in Kalkaman microdistrict. He was in critical condition, so he underwent emergency surgery. After the surgery the doctors told him that he had been shot in the stomach.

#Magnitsky #NoToCorruption
#IACD2021 #Zhanaozen2022

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On 8 January when Darkhan was lying in bed under drips with catheters, a special rapid response unit burst into the ward. "Make a move, and we will shoot you down without warning," they said to him straight away.

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They were all brought to the pre-trial detention facility SI-18. Darkhan was subjected to torture and beatings just like already known victims of the SI-18 namely: Akylzhan #KIYSIMBAYEV, Sayat #ADILBEKULY and Zhasulan #AMANGELDIYEV.

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As soon as he was released from the SI-18, he went back to the city hospital #7. However, the doctors refused to treat him saying that the treatment was fee-based, and Darkhan didn't have the money.

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Dear friends Darkhan is in urgent need of financial support. As his bank account is frozen, he gave his sister’s phone number attached to her Kaspi bank account where you can make your donation:

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