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.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
Chinese high-tech equipment plays a significant part in the repression, which also targets those who protested against atrocities in Xinjiang.
Alatau District Court refuses to declare the human rights activist a wanted fugitive.
The activist’s trial was “reactivated” after he was instrumental in the publication of testimonies of ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in Xinjiang in Bitter Winter.
The activist Serikzhan Bilash may be put in the wanted list by Kazakh authorities, obviously as the result of Chinese pressures.
“Three times a week, prison guards sprinkled pepper gas on us”: Bitter Winter starts an exclusive series of testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs persecuted in China.
Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly will be protected until October 2022. China answers with commercial retaliations.
After she took pictures of her husband’s arrest, which Bitter Winter published, Bakyt Zharykbassova was also detained and mistreated by the police.
Kazakhs citizens did not forget the crimes perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party against ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang.
Serikzhan Bilash’ organization was targeted with a usual tactic: multiply false reports and the algorithm will remove the account.
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