Kazakhstan's U.S. ambassador says that despite disagreeing with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's negative assessment of the country's parliamentary elections, observers from the body will be invited to return in the future.
Hearings have begun in Almaty in the appeal filed by three men convicted of killing Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk.
Some 200 opposition activists and supporters have rallied in the Kazakh city of Almaty to protest the results of the January 15 parliamentary elections.
The U.S. statement urged the Kazakh government to improve the transparency of elections, and to follow through on creating conditions necessary for genuine political pluralism.
Hearings have begun in Kazakhstan for a lawsuit seeking compensation for a victim of the first-ever suicide bombing against the National Security Committee.
Three parties have won seats in parliament following Kazakhstan's elections, putting an end to the oil-rich state's much-criticized one-party rule. But no opposition party got in, and most were blocked from even running, election monitors say.
A correspondent for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service filmed suspected ballot-stuffing at election booth No. 374 near Almaty. (Video in Kazakh)
Kazakh election officials say more than 75 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the January 15 polls. Reports say the vote was marred by flagrant violations.
Voting has begun in snap parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan that will end one-party rule but still exclude any real opposition
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.
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