.Open Dialogue Foundation / Fundacja Otwarty Dialog prepared the eighth report on how third-party countries, especially #Kazakhstan and #Kyrgyzstan, are assisting #Russia in its war against #Ukraine. We provide analyses to answer the following questions: ● Why the Western sanctions regime against Russia is not

1. On April 24, 2024, members of the organizing committee for the establishment of the opposition party "Alga Kazakhstan" for the twenty-fourth time (starting from May 2022) submitted the list of the initiative group to the Ministry of Justice (in Astana) to begin Freedom House

April 28, 2024. Shortandy settlement. Preventive political harassment before the announced peaceful protests on May 1,2024. Illegal outdoor surveillance and attempt to detain the red chairman of the organizing committee of "Alga Kazakhstan" party Amangeldy #Dzhakhin. Amnesty International

1. Monitoring of political persecution under Article 489 part 10 ("participation in an unregistered public association"). 1) Sergey #Izmailov (Petropavlovsk): On April 26, 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the court of first instance. Freedom House Amnesty International Human Rights Watch

Hello, Usra Zeya. I am an independent human rights defender of the Elimay movement, which #Tokayev demanded to physically destroy in January 2022. Alia #Isenova was wounded, Raigul #Sadyrbaeva was tortured, & I was added to the list of the dead on the 13th. Kelly T. Clements

1/3 Monitoring of preventive political persecutions ahead of the announced peaceful protests on 1 May 2024. Lord Vernon Coaker George Foulkes Paul Gavan Andrej Hunko

“Kazakhstanı Kazakhların yönetmediğini Doğu Türkistan’dan vatanım diye sevinçle Kazakhstana sığındığım gün gözaltına alınıp sorgulanırken anladım karşımdakiler Kazakh görünümlü Kazakh üniformalı Rus ve Çinlilerdi” Kampların canlı tanığı öğretmen Sayragül Sautbay

1/5 On December 13, 2024, a resident of #Taldykorgan, rapper Asylbek #Karimov, expressed condolences to the family of Karzhaubai #Nurymov on his page in connection with the death of their son, sixteen-year-old Sherzat Bolat, who was killed on October 4, 2024. Human Rights Watch Freedom House

1/7 On December 19, 2024, a press conference was held in Almaty on the deteriorating situation with political prisoners in Kazakhstan. European Commission Freedom House Anna Stürgkh 🇺🇦 Barbara Bonte Tsvetelina Penkova GiorgosKGeorgiou

1/4 January 21, 2025 #Kostanay Civil activist Sergey #Zinchenko came to the building of the #Kazakh Drama Theater for a performance (show) in a jacket on which was written "Satire is not a crime", in support of the author of the satirical public "Qaznews24" Temirlan #Yensebek.