Correspondents for Campaign Kazakhstan recently reported that up to 20 oil-workers from Mangistau in Western Kazakhstan have been arrested. Some of them, possibly as many as 20, were said to have been taken to Astana for trial and no access to them was being allowed. These workers have been trying to establish independent trade unions [...]
By Andrei Prigor, Astana On 22 December last year, the president of Kazakhstan signed amendments to the Administrative Code which mean everyone has to register with the police wherever they happen to be. This applies whether they are on a private visit, getting treatment somewhere, on a work visit or any other reason. Everyone has to [...]
Campaign Kazakhstan is calling for ‘commemorative’ messages like the one below to be sent to the Nazarbayev regime via local embassies and to the presidential HQ: akorda.press@gmail.com To Nursultan Nazarbayev and the authorities of Kazakhstan We write to you on the fifth anniversary of the horrific events of December 16th 2011 when your state forces [...]
Andrei Prigor, Astana, Kazakhstan In the spring of this year, Kazakhstan society was stirred up by the government making amendments to the law on land which would give foreigners the right to buy land. In an unprecedented development, all opposition movements, liberals and socialists and just activists came out against the law. In the city [...]
Azharkulova Kizdigoy has been an active member of the Coordination Committee of the association called “Leave the people their homes” since 2009. She is chair of the organisation in Shimkent, South Kazakhstan called “Protecting our homes”. For all of this time she has participated, together with members of the association, in all the national [...]
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