A former oil worker and political activist in the western Kazakh city of Aqtau has been detained by the police after his home was searched and a computer was confiscated.
Journalists from the independent online television station Stan-TV say police in the restive city of Zhanaozen are hindering the media's work.
Kazakhstan's Central Election Commission (CEC) and the country's Constitutional Council have approved holding parliamentary elections in the western city of Zhanaozen where violence last month left at least 16 people dead, some 100 injured, and caused extensive property damage.
Hundreds of activists from Russian leftist groups in Moscow have marked the anniversary of the shooting of peaceful demonstrators in St. Petersburg in 1905 known as "Bloody Sunday" while making parallels to the situation in Russian society today.
One of Kazakhstan's main opposition parties has accused the Kazakh government of conducting a smear campaign ahead of this week's parliamentary elections.
A Kazakh journalist who was recently released from jail says he will run the Almaty-based NGO Journalists in Trouble
Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev has vetoed a decision to cancel parliamentary elections in the western city of Zhanaozen.
A member of an independent team probing the deadly violence in the western Kazakh city of Zhanaozen has complained that officials there are restricting the investigation.
A journalist whose independent paper was shuttered after his conviction for revealing state secrets in an article hinting at wrongdoing in Kazakhstan's national security apparatus is free after three years in jail.
Kazakhstan's Constitutional Council has ruled it would be impossible to hold parliamentary elections in the restive western city of Zhanaozen, which was hit by rioting last month.
A contingent of family and supporters greeted Ramazan Yesergepov, chief editor of the now-defunct independent Kazakh newspaper "Alma-Ata Info," when he emerged from prison on January 6 after serving a three-year jail term for allegedly disclosing state secrets.
Several Kazakh activists gathered at a prison in southern Kazakhstan today to demand the release of journalist Ramazan Esergepov.
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