Tag: political persecution

The criminal proceedings against the wife of fugitive Kazakh opposition leader, Mukhtar Ablyazov, bear features of a political order. Ablyazov’s six-year-old daughter, Alua Ablyazova, may also be the victim of political conflict.

Although the MFA stated on 1 June that they knew nothing about the kidnapping of Alma and her child, I have found out that during the flight they were accompanied by 2 employees of the embassy of Kazakhstan in Italy

The Appellate Court upheld the guilty verdict against the human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin. Soon, he is going to be transported to the high-security penal colony EC 164/4. Now, friends and relatives of the Kazakh human rights activist fear possible reprisals against him.

30.01.2013 – 14.02.2013

Prosecutors mitigated the charges against Askar Moldashev, the brother of Daniyar Moldashev, the publisher of the ‘Golos Respubliki’ newspaper

On 18 January, 2013, a court trial in connection with the assassination of Aleksandr Bozhenko, (one of the witnesses of the Zhanaozen events of 16 December, 2011,) came to an end

08.12.2012 – 16.12.2012

10.11.2012 – 27.11.2012

23.10.2012 – 09.11.2012

We present to you an information booklet, devoted to the turbulent situation in the Republicof Kazakhstan – the largest country in Central Asia and the third largest economy in the CIS (after Russia and Ukraine).

Major events in the socio-political life of the country in the period between 01.10.2012 – 23.10.2012

Major events in the socio-political life of the country in the period between 01.09.2012-30.09.2012

01.07.2012 – 31.07.2012

Risks of using corruption tools in emerging markets by Western corporations. A tragedy at the Kazakh border post.

Risks of using corruption tools in emerging markets by Western corporations. A tragedy at the Kazakh border post.