NUR-SULTAN -- Police in Kazakhstan have detained more than three dozen people who were trying to gather for anti-government protests that have been deemed by authorities as “illegal actions.” ...

After Kazakhstan voted for president on June 9, police arrested thousands of protesters who believed the regime falsified the results. Since independence in 1991, Kazakhstan had been ruled by its ...

MOSCOW — Security forces killed dozens of protesters and 12 police officers died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze ...

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakh police detained about 20 people on Thursday who protested against the renaming of the Central Asian country's capital city after ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev ...

Protests in Kazakhstan this week over rising fuel prices grew more deadly, with authorities reporting January 6, 2022, that dozens of protesters and police officers were killed in the ...

(Berlin) – Kazakh authorities should release an activist arrested for knocking off a police officer’s hat during a protest and drop criminal charges brought against her, Human Rights Watch ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Police in Kazakhstan say they are seeking to track down those responsible for the killing of 11 people in a national park near the commercial capital, Almaty. The Interior ...

Kazakhstan's president on Saturday imposed ... After overpowering the outnumbered police officers, a mob went on a rampage throughout the city, setting alight the mayor's office, a hotel, the ...

Two police officers in Kazakhstan's northern Aqmola region have been sentenced to three years in jail for torture. On November 8, a court in the region's Astrakhan district found the officers ...

A police raid on a Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s north-western province of Xinjiang is about more than a government seeking ...

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