A court in Astana has sent two officers from Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, Colonel Erkin Amanov and Major Khamit Abdighali, as well as Qairat Sartai of the Border Guard Service, to pretrial detention for two months on a charge of torturing people arrested during and after nationwide mass anti-government protests in January 2022. Kazakh authorities have said that the unrest left at least 238 people dead, of whom at least six were tortured to death while in police custody. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, click here.
Three Kazakh Officers Arrested On Torture Charge From 2022 Mass Protests
Troops are seen on Almaty's main square, where hundreds of people were protesting against the government after the authorities' decision to lift price caps on liquefied petroleum gas, on January 6, 2022.