1/4 On 26 December 2022, the local executive body (Akimat) of Petropavlovsk city issued a refusal to hold a "Bloody January Remembrance Day" on 7 January 2023 in response to two notifications from civil activists.
2/4 The reason for the politically motivated refusal: a "city orienteering stage for schoolchildren" is going to be hold.
3/4 This is the tenth refusal to hold a "Bloody January Remembrance Day" on 7 January 2023 (5 in #Astana, 1 in #Almaty, 1 in #Uralsk, 1 in #Aksay and 2 in #Petropavlovsk).
On January 12, 2023, at 11:30 am, Semey Court No. 2 will hold a trial in a politically motivated criminal case under Article 256 (“propaganda of terrorism”) against political prisoners Rinat #Aliyev and Chingiz #Alpiev.
2/6 We invite everyone to come to the court as observers.
The wife of Chingiz Alpiyev, Zhibek #Alpieva, talks about a politically motivated criminal case fabricated by the authorities against her husband Chingiz #Alpiyev and brother Rinat #Aliyev. @RepMalinowski@osce_odihr
3/6 Chingiz Alpiev and Rinat Aliyev did not go out and did not even participate in the protests in January 2022.
On January 14, 2022, they were illegally detained and then tortured at the Semey Police Department. Severe beatings
Political persecution on the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Bloody January", announced by the organizing committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga #Kazakhstan" on January 7, 2023.
3/4 There were three healthy police officers in the room where the interrogation took place. The room was full of smoke and smelled of alcohol. It seemed to the Nazgul that the employees were in a state of intoxication.
2/5 On December 5, 2022, in the Enbekshinsky District Court of Shymkent, judge #Orakbayeva A.K., prosecutor #Nasriddin Eldar did not release Lyazzat Dosmambetova under an amnesty in a politically motivated criminal case, on the basis of an unserved term
Political persecution on the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Bloody January", announced by the organizing committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga #Kazakhstan" on January 7, 2023.
2/5 Civil activist #Bekzadina Elvira reported about her illegal detention.
At 12 noon, Elvira went to the monument to the Victims of the Holodomor to commemorate the victims of Bloody January. The whole territory was cordoned off with an iron fence, there were many policemen.
3/5 After Elvira laid flowers at the monument and went towards the #ZhastarPalace, a paddy wagon stopped in front of her, four #SOBR officers ran out of there, attacked Elvira, took her phone and pushed her into the paddy wagon. @nnienass
Political persecution on the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Bloody January", announced by the organizing committee for the creation of the opposition party "Alga #Kazakhstan" on January 7, 2023.
2/4 Civil activist Zhanar #Anarbayeva left her house by car to honor the memory of those killed in January 2022. On the way to the square, she was stopped by police officers and demanded to go to the police station, but Zhanar #Anarbayeva refused. @hrw@OSCE
1/10 #KAZAKHSTAN'S DEMACHE TO #EU: TASMAGAMBETOV LEADS #CSTO
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On November 23, 2022, it became known about the appointment of Imangali #Tasmagambetov as Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for the next three years.
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Such a step by Kazakhstan in the midst of #Russia's most brutal military aggression against the civilian civilian population of #Ukraine is a demonstration of Kazakhstan's complicity in the leadership of #Putin's military-political bloc.