Thread by @AiaKaz

1/5 #Nazarbayev used this format of meetings with religious figures successfully, held power for thirty years. #Tokayev follows the same path. Amends the Constitution, increases the term of presidency, uses the Assembly of Peoples of 🇰🇿 & the meeting with religious leaders. @hrw

https://twitter.com/KazBrussels/status/1567788834523385857

2/5 In realiti, the pressure on human rights defenders is intensifying. Tokayev, during the January events, accused human rights defenders of misreporting the #kazakhstanprotests2022 destabilizing the situation. He uses controlled human rights defenders, @MihraRittmann @MSNBC

3/5 the human rights ombudsman and the ombudsman #Azimova for the protection of children's rights to improve his image. At the same time, it persecutes independent human rights movements, does not allow them to register, persecutes them, arranges an economic blockade, @samiraraf

4/5 brings down all the force of the state administration on human rights defenders and volunteers. For example, @TurdiyevaU was deprived of allowance & registration in the employment center, @OSCE_RFoM @HerveJuvin @ArnaudDanjean @hermanntertsch
@JFLopezAguilar @VaticanNews

5/5 pressure through banks on relatives, she is distracted during important trials of #politicalprisoners, deprived of the right to record human rights violations. All of Tokayev's democratic rhetoric is used to evade #personalsanctions. @RomanaTomc @IJoveva @EamonGilmore @coe