Tag: Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan: Draft Constitution Raises Rights Concerns
(Berlin) – The Kazakhstan Constitutional Commission’s proposed amendments to the country’s constitution would severely weaken checks…
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Kazakhstan: Drop charges against Atajurt activists facing up to 10 years in prison for peaceful protest
Ahead of the start of the trial of 19 activists from the Kazakhstani human rights…
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Kazakhstan Draft ‘Morality’ Laws Threaten Rights
Kazakhstan’s Senate adopted two rights-violating laws on December 18, both of them threatening freedom of…
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Kazakhstan: Journalism, Free Expression in Further Peril. End Attacks on Journalism, Withdraw Bill Curbing Freedom of Expression
Authorities in Kazakhstan have targeted independent journalists and media outlets in recent weeks, a coalition…
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Kazakhstan: Journalism, Free Expression in Further Peril
(London, December 17, 2025) – Authorities in Kazakhstan have targeted independent journalists and media outlets…
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Kazakhstan: Parliament’s last-minute “LGBTI propaganda” ban must not become law
Reacting to the forthcoming reading in Kazakhstan’s parliament of draft amendments that would ban so-called…
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Kazakhstan: Reject ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Legal Proposals
(Berlin, November 11, 2025) – Lawmakers in Kazakhstan should reject a draft law with amendments that…
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Kazakhstan Tries to Shoot the Messenger
On August 17, police in Kazakhstan detained veteran human rights defender Bakhytzhan Toregozhina and held her…
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Kazakhstan: Journalists Denied Accreditation | Human Rights Watch
(Berlin, July 22, 2025) – The decision by Kazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from…
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Kazakhstan: Oral Statement on Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports, UN Human Rights Council 59th Session, 16 June-9 July 2025
Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the Consideration…