A court in Kazakhstan has ruled that an ethnic Kazakh man, who said he fled persecution from China's Xinjiang region, will not be deported. Tilek Tabarikuly and his family celebrated the January 16 decision in the the southeastern town of Zharkent.
A court in Kazakhstan has ruled that an ethnic-Kazakh man from China's northwestern region of Xinjiang who is on trial for illegally crossing the border will not be deported to China. Former Kazakh Interior Minister Qalmukhanbet Qasymov, whom rights defenders accuse of ordering police to open fire at a protest by oil workers, has become the chief of the Central Asian nation's State Guard Service. A Kazakh woman demonstrated in front of the Chinese consulate in Almaty on January 14 to demand the release of her husband from house arrest in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang.
Farida Qabylbek said her husband had been imprisoned for 13 years on espionage charges, then sent to a so-called reeducation camp and finally sentenced to house arrest. Authorities in Almaty warned her that her protest was illegal. A Kazakh woman demonstrating in front of the Chinese consulate in Almaty has been warned her protest demanding the release of her husband from house arrest in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang is illegal.
Dozens of women have rallied in the Kazakh capital to call for the government to raise social benefits paid to families with children, the second such rally this month. President Shavkat Mirziyoev is set to visit Russia in February and one of the top items on the agenda is certain to be Uzbekistan's possible membership of the Eurasian Economic Union.
What are the signs Uzbekistan might be leaning toward joining? Ice buildup has been identified as the most possible cause of a crash that killed 12 of the 98 passengers and crew aboard a Fokker aircraft on a flight operated by Kazakh airline Bek Air in Kazakhstan last month.
