Tag: Kazakhstan

Report on Kazakhstan

A famous public figure, Vice-Chairman of the Public Organization “Miner’s Family”, Tahir Mukhamedzyanov, was found dead in his own apartment.

Press Conference in Kyiv, 18.05.2012

Italian Senator Barbara Contini and Italian Deputy Aldo Di Biagio meet delegation from Kazakhstan to discuss human rights and opposition repression issues

During the Aktau trial for those whom President Nazarbaev and his closest advisors decided to deem guilty of organising mass riots in Zhanaozen on the 16th-17th of December, 2011, methods by which special prosecutors and investigators forced defendants to give ‘confessions’ were revealed

At the moment, the life of the journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov is at risk: he suffered a huge loss of blood, wounds caused damage of blood vessels in his heart

The staff of the Open Dialogue Foundation hereby informs about potential attempts, made by the Kazakh government to discredit the Foundation in order to eliminate this organisation as one of the sources of independent information about the situation on human rights and media freedom in Kazakhstan

An authoritative German media holding ‘Deutche Welle’ posted an article on its web site which discusses some characteristic features of Kazakh justice in matters relating to combating corruption in the country.

It was reported that on the 30th of March, 2012 an administrative case was initiated against Lyudmila Gorbenko

The case on persecution

In early March 2012 the international community placed high expectations on Kazakhstan. But the situation began to change dramatically after the prominent opposition leaders

NHC: ‘Opposition Alga party leader Vladimir Kozlov is still imprisoned along with several labour activists from Western Kazakhstan, and there are still limitations on the freedom of assembly and of expression.’

The case on persecution

Piotr Borys: EP will be appeal to the authorities of Kazakhstan regarding the matters of democratisation of the country.

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