Manshuk Asautai is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
A court in the Kazakh city of Taraz convicted five dead men on February 7 for their alleged roles in nationwide anti-government protests in January 2022, during which at least 238 people died. Four living men were also found guilty. Relatives of the deceased spoke to RFE/RL.
Kazakh authorities have closed and classified a high-profile case over the killing of a four-year-old child during unrest a year ago that claimed at least 238 lives across the country.
Police in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, have detained opposition activists who planned to hold a rally to challenge next month's early presidential election.
Another Kazakh activist has been released from prison after a court replaced the remainder of his five-year sentence with a parole-like penalty amid an outcry by human rights groups over political prisoners in the Central Asian nation.
A Kazakh court has replaced another activist's prison sentence with a parole-like penalty, the latest in a series of similar moves in President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's self-proclaimed liberalization campaign amid an outcry by human rights groups over political prisoners.
Kazakh authorities have rejected a request by the family of Zamanbek Nurqadilov to launch a new probe into the 2005 death of the opposition leader, which was ruled a suicide even though the government critic was found shot three times.
A Kazakh women's prison inmate accuses a guard of raping her. Instead of taking action against the guard, prison officials are preparing to send the inmate to a psychiatric hospital. Lawyers say the authorities do not want to admit rape exists in Kazakh prisons and are silencing those who speak out.
Dissident Kazakh poet Aron Atabek, who was recently released from prison after spending 15 years behind bars on charges he denied, has been hospitalized and is currently in an intensive care unit.
Police in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, have detained several activists who have been involved in ongoing pickets in front of the Chinese Consulate to demand the release of their relatives held in China's Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region.
State workers complain that Kazakhstan's relative wealth isn't trickling down, prompting some to turn to the marketplace -- or simply turn their office into one.
It was one year ago that Kazakh authorities announced a mass murder at a distant outpost on the Kazakh-Chinese border. Since then, the sole surviving border guard has been convicted and jailed, but many questions remain unanswered.
