Kazakhstan: NGO worker harassed ahead of monitoring elections
Event- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Initial Date
- Jan 9, 2021
- Event Description
Togzhan Kozhalieva, leader of the Halyqqa Adal Qyzmet (Service for Justice to People) Movement (HAQ) said that in Shymkent on 9 January law enforcement officials detained HAQ activist Amanulla Ramankulov who had in his possession 600 election observer certificates for members of the movement: 300 for the South Kazakhstan region and 300 for the Kyzylorda region. The certificates were seized and returned later in the day muddled up and it was then impossible to separate them by region. The police reportedly apologised and said that there were no grounds for the arrest.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to work
- HRD
- NGO staff
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 42.31709709863212
Longitude: 69.58718947383731
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 9 January 2021, Amanulla Ramankulov, staff from the NGO Halyqqa Adal Qyzmet (Service for Justice to People), had confiscated by the police 600 elections observer certificates, which were retuned later to her no anymore utilisable in Shymkent, Kazahstan.