📢The court hearings of March 28 and 29 aimed at prolonging measures of restraint against political prisoners and civil activists Zhanmurat #ASHTAYEV, Lyazzat #DOSMAMBETOVA and Kairat #SULTANBEK, who were detained in connection with the January events 1/5 
The Specialised Investigative Court of #Shymkent prolonged the detention period until 8 June 2022, while the investigation continues.
👉These politically motivated criminal cases have been fabricated under Art. 269 Part 2 paragraph 1.6 of the Criminal Code of #Kazakhstan 🚨 2/5
👉These politically motivated criminal cases have been fabricated under Art. 269 Part 2 paragraph 1.6 of the Criminal Code of #Kazakhstan 🚨 2/5
New charges were fabricated in relation to #ASHTAYEV under Art. 272 Part 2 (“Participation in mass disorder”). After the detention, Zhanmurat and Kairat were tortured and beaten 🆘. Lyazzat is still in detention, despite her acute headache‼️ 3/5
🕵️♂️👀 They are accused of the alleged attack of the #Shymkent Akimat (local executive body) attack against policemen, and setting fire to the exhibition centre building close to the Akimat by a group of people on 4 and 5 January 2022. 4/5
The authorities of #Kazakhstan demonstrate that the “new #Kazakhstan” is still the same old #Kazakhstan with political repressions, impunity for arbitrary persecution of peaceful citizens, and absence of objective and transparent investigation‼️⚠️ 6/6
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