A group of parents, whose children are in custody of cases of January events or died from bullets in January and are posthumously accused, go from Taraz to the capital to demand a complete excuse for their loved ones.According to them, on the eve of the local authorities tried to stop them.
Bakytzhan Shyngysbekov, whose 18-year-old son was shot dead during the January events, told Azattyk that the group went on the road on the night of August 10, but the police stopped the cars with them.
- From the night, obstacles continue.We hired a taxi, tried to get by bus.The bus drove 500 meters and landed us.Perhaps a call came.The taxi was stopped, a fine was imposed.Now we are walking, ”he said on August 10 to Azattyk.
On Wednesday, the group was on the site of the road near the village of Akyrtobe, which is 60 kilometers from Taraz.Information about the current location is still unknown, the connection works poorly in some sections of the track.
The group called its procession “march requiring justice” (“әdildik Talap Etkender Marsh”).Among the walking on foot there is Nigor Zakaryaev, the mother of Yerzhan Baizhanov, who died in January, as well as Jamil Rakhimbekov, the mother of the deceased Toktar Oshakbay, and women named Gauhar and Sveta, whose children are detained.
Parents say that the authorities gave them various promises, but they had no patience.
- In Akyrtobe, we were overtaken by akim and the prosecutor of the Zhambyl region.They said: “Return, we will decide for ourselves.”They said that they would give a car to take Nur-Sultan.We did not agree, ”said Bakytzhan Shyngysbekov.
Azattyk turned to the akimat of the Zhambyl region for comments.At the time of publication, the news did not receive a response.
- July 11–14, over a dozen people from the cities of Aktobe, Almaty, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Taraz and Shymkent, who lost their loved ones during the January events, spent the night in front of Akorda, demanding to rehabilitate the dead and conduct an open investigation of the circumstances of their death.On July 14, people who came to the capital from different regions were detained near Akorda.Later, representatives of the akimats and the prosecutor’s office met with them.Protesters said they intend to gather again if their requirements are ignored.
- In early January of this year, in several regions of Kazakhstan, mass protests were held, which in a number of cities resulted in bloodshed.On January 7, President Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev publicly stated that he had given the order to be secured to shoot to defeat without warning.
- According to official figures, during the January events in Kazakhstan 232 people were killed, six more died from torture after detention.According to the authorities, about a hundred people are sentenced to imprisonment in cases begun in connection with January events.The authorities did not publish the list of the dead by this day and did not report the circumstances of their death.The authorities of Kazakhstan rejected the calls of human rights activists to conduct an international investigation of January events.
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