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Civil activist Kaliakar #AMRENOV reports that on 20 March 2022, investigator of Anti-Corruption Agency in Pavlodar region named #TAUKEL D.S. closed the criminal case against the police officers from Ekibastuz on Article 146 Part 2 (torture). @EU_Commission@hrw
3/7 The decision was approved by the prosecutor of Pavlodar region #OMARGALIYEV A.B.
Thus, the 🇰🇿 authorities demonstrate that the "New Kazakhstan" - is the same old 🇰🇿 : with political repressions, impunity for torture, absence of objective and transparent investigation.
4/7 This week the Kazakhstani authorities are visiting Brussels, including human rights commissioner Elvira #AZIMOVA, who claims to have been doing "transparent investigations", but in reality it is seen that the authorities are engaged in an imitation of "political reforms".
2. On February 10, it became known that the Russian company JSC "Retrans", associated with the Russian oligarch Viktor #Vekselberg, bought the international airport in the city of Uralsk in western Kazakhstan, in close proximity to the borders with Russia. @UnderSecStateJ
3. Viktor Vekselberg is under sanctions from 🇬🇧, the 🇺🇸, 🇯🇵 and 🇨🇦. The purchase of an international airport in 🇰🇿 by a Russian company affiliated with sanctioned Viktor Vekselberg points to the creation of a transport bridge in Kazakhstan to bring sanctioned goods to 🇷🇺.
1. On February 8, 2023, members of the organizing committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga Kazakstan" for the ❗tenth time (since May 2022) submitted a list of the initiative group to the Ministry of Justice to begin registration of the party. @rozathun@hrw
2. The authorities refused (a total of 10 politically motivated refusals since May 2022) citing Article 8 of the law on political parties (the list of the initiative group allegedly does not meet the requirements of the law). @EP_HumanRights@UN_HRC@UnderSecStateJ@POTUS
3. The authorities did not give a specific answer as to what exactly does not comply.
On February 8, the list of 2,704 people was submitted out of the 700 people required by law.
The organizing committee of "Alga Kazakstan" has videos of 1370 people, which confirms that the
3. The police issued them with politically motivated administrative reports: Marat ZHYLANBAYEV, Amangeldy DZHAKHIN, Venera ZHANBAYEVA, Nazgul Zhusupova were fined 153150 tenge each ($323) under Article 489 Part 10. @hrw@UN_HRC
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"So far, 171 cases have been completed. Investigations are continuing in 177 cases. All the requirements of the Istanbul Protocol are being observed". @accessnow@Nicole_Hoechst@BPareren@JHowellUK
2. Earlier, on 20 April, the KNB summoned Shalipa #Bekkulova for questioning in a politically motivated criminal case as a witness. Formally, this may be related to the fact that on January 5,
3. when the authorities deliberately turned off the Internet in the country in order to total information blockade, Shalipa Bekkulova together with her colleagues called civil activists around #Kazakhstan to find out whether they are safe.@NachoSAmor@KubiliusA@JosepBorrellF
3.@EU_Commission @ViolavonCramon @UnderSecStateJ @Malinowski
Governor Alexander Burkov spoke about the readiness of the region to cooperate with Kazakh companies in the areas:
- Agro-industrial complex
- Food production
- Petrochemicals
- Construction industry