Angry protestors gather every day in the main square in the Kazakh town of Zhanaozen in a rare display of popular dissent. Many of them used to work at Uzen, one of Kazakhstan's largest oilfields, but were fired in August in an attempt to stop a four-month strike at the facility.
Kazakh internet users have been angered by a ban on access to 51 international websites that the Prosecutor General's Office claims are promoting terrorism and extremism.
(Reuters) - The organizers of New York Fashion Week have canceled a planned show by the designer daughter of Uzbekistan's leader Islam Karimov, who has been accused of human rights abuses.
(SRI) - Head of the state-owned holding and investment company Samruk-Kazyna Timur Kulibayev reiterated on Wednesday that he has no intentions to enter politics, the Kazakhstan-Novosti news agency reported.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, seen here on Sept. 1 visiting with children during a trip to the Kyzylorda region in western Kazakhstan, vows to clamp down on extremism following a suicide bombing and several clashes between security forces and armed suspects.
A delegation from the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has met with imprisoned Kazakh human rights defender Yevgeny Zhovtis.
In die Causa des international gesuchten Kasachen Rachat Alijew kommt etwas Bewegung. Ein Wiener Bezirksgericht erlässt einen Zahlungsbefehl zum Schadenersatz an eines seiner Folteropfer. Dennoch tauchen weitere Merkwürdigkeiten im Umgang Österreichs mit dem langwierigen Kasachen-Krimi auf. Sie lassen sich als amtliche Fluchthilfe interpretieren.
