In a subsequent report , Human Rights Watch said that Kazakhstani authorities “arbitrarily arrested peaceful protesters and others, ill-treated and tortured some detainees, and interfered with detainees’ access to lawyers” after the January unrest. Some were arrested before the violence escalated, and others seemingly detained for livestreaming the protests. Prof Boyle was born in Newry in 1943 and became a lawyer and academic at Queen’s University Belfast, as well as an executive member and press officer for NICRA; his archive includes documents such as the minutes from the agm of the South Derry Civil Rights Association, held in Bellaghy in March 1972, which demonstrate the strength of feeling about Bloody Sunday in the area. That day, Aiman Umarova, a well-known Kazakh lawyer and activist, decided to see what was happening in the streets of central Almaty three days into the biggest protests in the 30-year history of independent Kazakhstan. A letter from the Department of Foreign Affairs thanking Kevin Boyle for his report Widgery: A Critique

During his interrogation, police argued that Dmytry had written a lot of critical articles and it was time for the police to get their revenge. Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General Berik Asylov, in recent remarks to the country’s parliament, the Majilis, laid out the government’s allegations that the unrest in January 2022 — known as Bloody January— was essentially an “attempted coup.” Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. The government’s delay in adopting promised reforms has left the Kazakhstani public restless, especially as inequality grows and purchasing power shrinks. But pandemic-induced restrictions on public gatherings and a new policing strategy have limited protests and, as in the Nazarbayev era, it has become impossible for people to speak out. We cooked bread ourselves at home because we have a bread oven. All the shops were closed, but we had food for a few days. Sometimes relatives would bring us something, so we were not hungry. Even if we wanted to, we couldn’t withdraw money because the banks were not working,” Umarova says.It is that fear and excitement he tries to tap into in Bloody January. “I always think Glasgow gets represented as a bit one-dimensional in fiction. It all tends to be hard men and battered women, which, I’m sure, sadly, is a lot of people’s experience. But I always remember we used to go to Pettigrew’s and Frasers. Big department stores which seemed really rich. The 2023 CWA Daggers Shortlists Have Been Announced". Ian Fleming. 2023-05-17 . Retrieved 2023-07-10. One of my colleagues received 10 days of arrest, other colleagues started having problems, several testimonies have already come out that many people who have been detained were tortured,” Moldabekov said.

Aynur was stunned when she learned Farhat had fled the country. She said he had always had good relations with police officers. She also received an official summons and reported to the police station where she was questioned for three hours about why she was at the protest and why she took pictures. Men attending the protest in Aktobe in early January 2022 warm themselves by a fire. Photo credit: Yuri Geist. Sitting next to Putin in Saint Petersburg, Tokayev said Kazakhstan would not recognise "quasi-state territories" like eastern Ukraine's rebel republics, as Russia has. Her reporting would conclude that he died from a bullet to his heart, fired by the authorities, despite police testimony that they had only fired rubber bullets. In trying to get away, a motorist accidently hit a man who turned out to be a police officer.A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. Protestors remained in the Aktau town square on 6 January. Six thousand people protested in the centre of Zhanaozen. The akim of Zhanoazen, Maksat Ibagarov, stated that "none of the local activists [would] be persecuted". [103] A flyer outlining the “instructions for marchers” at the march in Newry held in response to Bloody Sunday The images Umarova saw deeply troubled her. She no longer understood what was happening in her hometown. Groups of masked looters stormed shops, cafes, and public buildings, stealing and destroying everything they encountered in their path.