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Kazakhstan: Government Critic on Trial for ’Extremism’

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par Human Rights Watch

(Berlin, November 9, 2023) – The politically motivated prosecution of an outspoken critic of the Kazakhstan government for alleged membership in a banned “extremist” organization violates his rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. In an October 30, 2023, preliminary hearing in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital, the court closed the trial to observers and the media after two witnesses, who gave testimony against the critic, Marat Zhylanbaev, and whose identities the court did not disclose, alleged that they were facing threats. “Zhylanbaev shouldn’t…

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