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Kazakhstan Political Freedoms in Kazakhstan This 53-page report details government harassment of Kazakhstan's opposition through arbitrary criminal and misdemeanor charges and threats of job dismissal, in many cases aimed at preventing them from running for public office. Among those imprisoned were Galymzhan Zhakianov and Mukhtabar Ablizaov, the founding leaders of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, an opposition group formed in November 2001. Abliazov was released in May 2003. Also imprisoned and then released in 2003 was Sergei Duvanov, an opposition journalist and trenchant critic of government corruption. April 6, 2004 Download PDF, 287 KB, 53 pgs Purchase online Fanning the Flames: How Human Rights Abuses are Fueling the AIDS Epidemic in Kazakhstan Human rights abuse against injection drug users and sex workers in Kazakhstan is fueling one of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world, Human Rights Watch said in this new report.The 54-page report, “Fanning the Flames: How Human Rights Abuses are Fueling the AIDS Epidemic in Kazakhstan,” documents instances of violent police brutality, lack of due process, harassment and stigmatization that drive drug users and sex workers underground and impede their access to life-saving HIV prevention services.Routine and sometimes violent harassment of injection drug users and sex workers by the police adds to their already marginal status in Kazakhstan. Drug users may be arrested for possession of very tiny amounts of narcotics, police find it easy to pin false charges on them, and they are convenient targets when arrest quotas need to be filled. HRW Index No.: D1504 June 30, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Kazakhstan: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers It is not known whether there are under-18s in government armed forces as there is no information on the minimum voluntary recruitment age. There is potential child involvement in Uzbek Islamist armed movements reportedly operating from the south of the country. June 12, 2001 Kazakhstan: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Kazakhstan has not acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty. The government has said that it supports the ideas of the Ottawa process and its humanitarian aspects, but "joining the treaty in the close future is problematic, primarily because the treaty obliges complete and immediate destruction of landmines which are used in Kazakhstan for defensive purposes only, to protect considerable parts of its long border. Clearing these landmines away and their substitution with the most modern types of landmines will require considerable financial resources." August 1, 2000 Kazakhstan: Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections In a new report released ahead of this week's parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, Human Rights Watch charged that the government was repeating the manipulation used in the January election of President Nazarbaev. These tactics, which include the banning of opposition candidates and censoring the media will taint the polls for the lower house of parliament, to be elected on October 10. In this report, the international monitoring group methodically documents how the Kazakh government succeeded in curtailing freedom of expression, association, assembly and the right to political participation in the run-up to Presidential elections held in January. Human Rights Watch says that the government has repeated these methods in the run-up to the parliamentary elections.The 39-page report, which is based on a fact-finding mission conducted in December 1998, details the various means used to silence independent news media, to thwart efforts by opposition groups to organize, and to prevent critically-minded individuals from standing for election. The report further shows how the government directed state agencies to coerce public support for President Nazarbaev, in violation of international standards on free participation and of Kazakhstan's own election law. October 1, 1999 Purchase online Conflict in the Soviet Union: The Untold Story of the Clashes in Kazakhstan The first major expression of popular anger in the Soviet Union occurred in the republic of Kazakhstan in December 1986, when thousands of youths took to the streets to protest the appointment by Moscow of Gennady Kolbin as First Party Secretary for Kazakhstan. In the violence that followed, at least three people were killed by government forces and hundreds were wounded. Hundreds were also detained and 99 were later charged and sentenced. Because the Soviet government subsequently placed Kazakhstan, its second largest republic, off limits to outside inspection, little was known about the December events. A Helsinki Watch fact-finding mission to Kazakhstan resulted in this unique account, pieced together from eyewitness testimonies and other sources, describing the reasons for the unrest in Kazakhstan and the Soviet government’s illegal use of lethal force. The Untold Story of the Clashes in Kazakhstan also explores the Soviet government’s suppression of information about the disorders there. HRW Index No.: ISBN 0-929692-72-1 October 1, 1990 Purchase online
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