1/6 U.S. SENATORS CALL FOR REVIEW OF SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO #KAZAKHSTAN AND A INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO SHOOTINGS IN JANUARY 2022
2/6 Senators join growing calls for an international investigation into state-sanctioned violence and a review of #US security assistance following nationwide protests earlier this year.
3/6 WASHINGTON - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (New Jersey) was joined today by Senators Ben Cardin (Maryland), Dick Durbin (Illinois) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) in urging the #Biden administration
4/6 to support international efforts to investigate the brutal actions of Kazakhstan's security forces against peaceful protesters, bystanders and detainees involved in the January 2022 mass demonstrations that resulted in the death of over 200 people.
5/6 Although the Kazakhstani government has launched its own investigation, the senators called for an international expert mission to ensure full accountability.
1/5 On 12 October 2022 at 02:30 p.m. (Uralsk time) the city court of #Uralsk will hold an offline court hearing in a politically motivated criminal case under Article 405 Part 2 ("participation in an extremist organisation") against civil activists #YESKENDIROVA Marua and
The activists have been under house arrest since 28 April 2022.
The authorities are prosecuting Marua and Amangeldy for the following political reasons:
1/6 #Aktobe
On 13 October, the politically motivated criminal case under Article 272 Part 2 ("participation in mass disorder") against 18 people continued at the Specialised Inter-District Criminal Cour of Aktobe region: @nnienass
3/6 Thanks to public support and public advocacy, political prisoner Ablaykhan #BEKEYEV has had his measure of restraint changed from arrest in the pre-trial detention facility, where he was held for 9 months, to an undertaking to appear in court.
1/5 #Astana
On 12 October 2022, members of the organising committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga #Kazakhstan" for the third time submitted a list of the initiative group (2,149 persons - which is twice the amount required by law) ⤵️
2/5 to the Ministry of Justice to begin registration of the party. However, on the same day, 13 October, the Ministry of #Justice returned the documents, refusing to start registration of the party,
3/5 citing Article 8 of the law on political parties, while providing no specific explanation as to whose data on the list of the initiative group does not meet the requirements of the law.
1/5 A politically motivated criminal case under Article 272 Part 2 ("participation in mass disorder") against 18 people will be held on 13-14 October at the #Aktobe region Specialised Inter-District Criminal Court at 9:30 am (Aktobe time):
3/5 The authorities attributed the actions of their provocateurs to a group of peaceful activists who have been involved in peaceful protests for several years and who have the right to defend themselves against police beatings and shootings.
1/5 #Kokshetau
Preventive political persecution before the submission of lists (for the third time) of the initiative group of the organising committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga #Kazakhstan" to the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan on 12 October 2022.
3/5 with the requirement to appear in the police department of Kokshetau on 12 October 2022 at 10:00 a.m. The formal reason for the summons is stated as "conducting investigative actions within the criminal case No. 221166031000458".
1/4 #Almaty
On 12 October 2022, journalist and blogger Duman #MUKHAMETKARIM was arrested for 15 days on politically motivated administrative charges under Article 488("violation of the Law on #PeacefulAssembly") for calling for participation in a peaceful protest on 25 October.
2/4 Duman MUKHAMETKARIM'S lawyer, Galym #NURPEISOV, told #Azattyq the following: