Kazakhstan: Protect Human Rights During Crisis

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police detain Khalida Akytkhan outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where relatives of people detained or disappeared in Xinjiang, China have been protesting for over 300 days. December 8, 2021. © 2021 Manas Kaiyrtaiuly/RFE/RL (Berlin) – Kazakhstan authorities have failed to prioritize protecting human rights during the country’s current crisis, and should urgently cancel any order to shoot to kill without warning and uphold the rights of those in detention, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. More broadly, Central Asian countries…

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