Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defender sentenced to 10-year jail term
Event- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Initial Date
- Sep 10, 2024
- Event Description
Asanali Suieubaev, a founding member of the unregistered Algha, Qazaqstan (Forward, Kazakhstan) political party, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on September 10 on a charge of distributing illegal drugs that he rejects as politically motivated. Suieubaev's lawyer, Meiirzhan Dosqaraev, told RFE/RL on September 11 that the case against his client had been "trumped up" after he publicly accused former President Nursultan Nazarbaev of corruption in November 2023. Also in November, the chairman of Algha, Qazaqstan, Marat Zhylanbaev, was sentenced to seven years in prison on extremism charges that he also rejected as politically motivated.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to liberty and security
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 51.12840561798707
Longitude: 71.42986170875203
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 10 September 2024, Asanali Suieubaev, pro-democracy defender, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of distributing illegal drugs, which the HRD rejects as politically motivated, by a court in Astana, Kazakhstan.