ALMATY (Reuters) – Kazakh safety forces cracking down on unrest final month have arbitrarily arrested peaceable protesters, in poor health-handled and tortured detainees, and interfered with detainees’ entry to attorneys, Human Rights Watch says.
The authorities say no less than 227 individuals have been killed within the worst bout of political violence within the Central Asian in its post-Soviet historical past, which noticed former president Nursultan Nazarbayev and his kin ousted from all positions of energy.
About 10,000 individuals have been detained after the unrest, the authorities stated. Most have been launched inside days however some have complained on social and native media beatings and torture by the hands of police.
HRW stated in an announcement on Tuesday it had obtained credible stories of dozens of circumstances wherein police arbitrarily detained peaceable protesters and different individuals, and subjected some detainees to in poor health-remedy and torture, together with with electrical shocks and beatings.
Kazakhstan’s inside and international ministries haven’t replied to a request for touch upon the HRW report.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated final week that human rights officers have been wanting into complaints from detainees.
Kazakhstan has blamed the violence on “bandits” assisted by Islamist militants a few of whom officers stated had arrived from different Central Asian nations and had been educated overseas.
(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov, Additional reporting by Aigerim Turgunbayeva, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
