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Oppositionist Therefore Extremist
Over the last 2.5 years, the authorities of Kazakhstan have arbitrarily detained over 7,000 peaceful protesters, which is an unprecedented amount in the history of the country. The police used excessive force, including pain grips and asphyxiating techniques. During interrogations, detainees are asked about their support for the opposition movements…

Oppositionist Therefore Extremist
Servants of the regime: sanction list of persons accountable for gross human rights violations in Kazakhstan
In authoritarian Kazakhstan, civil society representatives are subjected to arbitrary detention, criminal prosecution, imprisonment and torture for public and human rights activities, participation in peaceful protests and criticism of the authorities through social networks.

Servants of the regime: sanction list of persons accountable for gross human rights violations in Kazakhstan
Systemic Misconduct by the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan on Human Rights Issues
Since 2010, the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) has been monitoring the human rights situation in Kazakhstan, partnering up with foreign missions on the ground – including the EU Delegation to Kazakhstan – to ensure a continuous dialogue with civil society on serious human rights concerns in the country. However, in…

Systemic Misconduct by the European Union Delegation to Kazakhstan on Human Rights Issues
Kazakhstan: Political Oppression During the Pandemic
The coronavirus infection COVID-19 has become a challenge not only for healthcare systems, economics, social policy and public administration in most countries of the world, but also to human rights. Human rights have been especially threatened in authoritarian states, including Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan: Political Oppression During the Pandemic
The Toll of COVID-19 on Human Rights: Selected Countries and Territories Worldwide
The coronavirus outbreak was labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020. As of 22 June 2020, the WHO had reported cases of COVID-19 in more than 216 countries and more than 8,844,171 people infected worldwide.

The Toll of COVID-19 on Human Rights: Selected Countries and Territories Worldwide
The Case of Zhanara Akhmetova: Ukraine Is in Haste to Arrest and to Extradite Kazakhstani Journalist
A prominent Kazakhstani journalist and opposition activist Zhanara Akhmetova could be illegally extradited from Ukraine to Kazakhstan at any time. According to our sources, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is already preparing to place her under extradition arrest. On 19 May 2020, Akhmetova got a decision by the Supreme…

The Case of Zhanara Akhmetova: Ukraine Is in Haste to Arrest and to Extradite Kazakhstani Journalist
Kazakhstan: A dialogue or bluff?
This report provides an analysis of Kazakhstan's implementation of the European Parliament Resolution of 14 March 2019 on the human rights situation in the country (2019/2610(RSP).

Kazakhstan: A dialogue or bluff?
List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons (updated)
This report examines the cases of 39 individuals who are currently subject to politically motivated criminal prosecution in Kazakhstan. Among them, 21 are political prisoners who remain in prisons or pre-trial detention facilities.

List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons (updated)
Servants of the Regime: Who Prosecutes Peaceful Protesters in Kazakhstan
The Open Dialogue Foundation has managed to gather the names of 136 police officers, investigators, security officers, prosecutors and judges who participated in politically motivated prosecutions of peaceful protesters.

Servants of the Regime: Who Prosecutes Peaceful Protesters in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan After the 6th of July 2019: Authorities Persecute and Imprison the Participants of Peaceful Protests
On 6 July 2019, rallies were planned in various cities of Kazakhstan to demand that the results of the presidential election be cancelled and Nazarbayev be deprived of power, as well as against Chinese expansion. Law enforcement agencies detained about 700 peaceful protesters in different places.

Kazakhstan After the 6th of July 2019: Authorities Persecute and Imprison the Participants of Peaceful Protests
  1. Kazakhstan’s Kafkaesque dictatorship: the authorities “playing rodeo” with its critics
  2. Please, listen to the citizens of Kazakhstan – Second ODF’s Newsletter
  3. Italian Senator Emma Bonino demands Italy’s MFA to condemn human rights violations in Kazakhstan
  4. Italian MPs alarmed by the human rights backsliding in Kazakhstan
  5. Oppositionist Therefore Extremist
  6. Political killings in Kazakhstan and the need to impose personal sanctions. Our intervention at the OSCE meeting
  7. Kazakhstan: MEPs are shocked by the deaths of human rights activists
  8. Servants of the regime: sanction list of persons accountable for gross human rights violations in Kazakhstan
  9. Italian court sentenced all the defendants for the abduction of Alma Shalabayeva and her 6-year-old daughter
  10. DCK leader Mukhtar Ablyazov receives political asylum in France
  1. The report: The Interpol system is in need of reform
  2. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on human rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  3. ODF addresses the new UNHCR on issue of political refugees
  4. Monitoring of the socio-political situation in Kazakhstan
  5. The “Alga!” party: a ban on its activities and oppression of activists
  6. Vitaliy Yarema “achievements”. Results of the activities of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office: a year after Euromaidan
  7. The Open Dialog Foundation’s top achievements
  8. Kazakhstan nationalises pension funds
  9. Ukraine assists post-Soviet states with the persecution of political opponents and refugees
  10. Kazakhstan and the death penalty: reform of the criminal code counters the abolitionist tendency

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PACE Members: “Magnitsky laws” sanctions must be imposed in response to political prosecution in Kazakhstan

PACE Members: “Magnitsky laws” sanctions must be imposed in response to political prosecution in Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan’s Kafkaesque dictatorship: the authorities “playing rodeo” with its critics

Kazakhstan’s Kafkaesque dictatorship: the authorities “playing rodeo” with its critics

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Oppositionist Therefore Extremist

Oppositionist Therefore Extremist

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