1/5 31 January 2023 #Aktobe
On 1 February 2023, at 14:30 a.m. (Aktobe time) in the Specialised Inter-district Criminal Court of Aktobe region, a verdict in the politically motivated criminal case under Article 272 Part 2 ("participation in mass disorders")
1/5 PROTEST AGAINST ILLEGAL 17 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT #Kyzylorda
On 11 January 2023 political prisoner Kazybek #KUDAIBERGENOV attempted suicide.
By taking his own life Kazybek wanted to draw attention to the lawlessness going on in Kazakhstan
2/5 On 28 November 2022, Judge #ALIYEV Duman sentenced Kazybek KUDAIBERGENOV to 17 years in prison in a trumped-up and politically motivated criminal case
3/5 After the suicide attempt, when meeting with officials, Kazybek said that he did not agree with the verdict. That he did not commit the actions he was charged with
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Two policemen came to civil activist Yermek #KONSHBAYEV’s home to allegedly check on him and see if he was fine. They claimed they decided to drop by on their way to a place on a call.
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OSCE: ELECTIONS IN KAZAKHSTAN WERE HELD WITHOUT POLITICAL COMPETITION
On 21 November 2022, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said that the OSCE's ODIHR "suffers from a lack of objectivity" due to a "biased" assessment of the elections.
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Tokayev, continuing the Nazarbayev tradition, did not allow real opposition to participate in the elections, and the OSCE observers have documented this in detail in the report.