Kazakhstan’s authorities have arrested a range of civic and political activists since the beginning of May. Journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim was arrested for 25 days on May 1 for having “covertly called for a rally” during one of his livestreams, the prosecutor said. A number of other activists of the banned organization Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) were arrested in Almaty and fined for having taken part in an unsanctioned rally on May Day. In Astana, the police unlawfully detained for about one hour Vlast reporter Beiimbet Moldagali, who had gone to the site where DVK’s leader and fugitive opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov had called for a rally, which went deserted.
Kyrgyz officials say they have found a second tunnel along the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border purportedly used to illegally cross the border as well as for smuggling goods.
Ukrainian forces are still holding out in Syevyerodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said, despite being outnumbered and outgunned by Russian forces.