Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defender placed in pretrial detention (Update)

Event
Country
  • Kazakhstan
Initial Date
Dec 14, 2022
Event Description

Kazakh activist Marat Abiev has been placed in pretrial detention for two months after serving a 15-day jail term for organizing an unsanctioned protest rally on November 26, the day of President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev's inauguration. The Astana City Court on December 14 did not specify what charges Abiev faced. Toqaev was reelected in an election held on November 20. A monitoring mission by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights said after the election that the election lacked "competitiveness."

Impact of Event
1
Gender of HRD
  • Man
Violation
  • (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
  • Judicial Harassment
Rights Concerned
  • Freedom of assembly
  • Freedom of expression
    • Offline
  • Right to liberty and security
  • Right to Protest
HRD
  • Pro-democracy defender
Perpetrator-State
  • Judiciary
Source

RFERL

Monitoring Status
Pending
Event Location

Latitude: 51.132583811403656

Longitude: 71.43334527893394

Event Location
Summary for Publications

On 14 December 2022, Marat Abiev, pro-democracy defender, was sentenced to 2-month pretrial detention for organising a peaceful rally by a court in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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