As COVID measures, the massive detention and the separation of nomads from their animals do not make sense. It is just additional repression of a minority.
Laila Adilzhan
Kazakhstan: Mass Arrests and Surveillance—With Some Help from China
Chinese high-tech equipment plays a significant part in the repression, which also targets those who protested against atrocities in Xinjiang.
How a Kazakh Critic of China Became an Asylum Seeker in the Netherlands
Activist and Bitter Winter correspondent Laila Adilzhan managed to land in Amsterdam with the help of American friends. It was quite an adventure.
Kazakhstan: Serikzhan Bilash Trial Postponed
The activist’s trial was “reactivated” after he was instrumental in the publication of testimonies of ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in Xinjiang in Bitter Winter.
Kazakhstan Recognizes Xinjiang Refugees, China Retaliates
Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly will be protected until October 2022. China answers with commercial retaliations.
Eid al-Adha in Xinjiang: Propaganda vs Reality
Beijing used the feast to broadcast fake videos of Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs celebrating in a strange way. Some concessions were made this year, but within a climate of terror.
Kazakhstan: Activist Baibolat Kunbolat’s Wife Arrested, Beaten
After she took pictures of her husband’s arrest, which Bitter Winter published, Bakyt Zharykbassova was also detained and mistreated by the police.
Kazakhstan: Massive Protests, Arrests for CCP’s 100th Anniversary
Kazakhs citizens did not forget the crimes perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party against ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang.
Refugees from Xinjiang, Protesters Harassed and Arrested in Kazakhstan
Those who want to prevent ethnic Kazakhs who escaped from China from telling their stories continue to resort to legal and illegal actions.
When Picketing Works: China Frees Ethnic Kazakh Rakhizhan Zeinolla
His wife’s picket at the Chinese consulate in Almaty got so much attention that the CCP decided to give up, ad set her husband free after 17 years of detention.
Laila Adilzhan
Laila Adilzhan is the wife of Kazakhstan’s most well-known human rights activist, Serikzhan Bilash, and the mother of three children.