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Access Now 10 March 2021 | 2:30 pm
Access Now received a report from Internet Protection Society, Russia that an internet shutdown was detected in two major Kazakhstan cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan on February 28, 2021, from approximately 14:00 to 17:00 local time. Foreign media organizations, as well local groups like Media Alliance and Legal Media Center, Kazakhstan, have also reported that the shutdown took place. Measurements from the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) system also indicate network disruptions during the relevant time period.
The shutdown coincides with the anti-government protests in several Kazakh cities calling for the release of political prisoners, following a resolution passed by the European Parliament on human rights in the country. The authorities responded with violence and detained approximately 50 protesters.
“Shutting down the internet during a
global health crisis is incredibly unsafe,” said
Felicia Anthonio, Campaigner and #KeepItOn Lead at
Access Now. “But, with no regard for human life,
this is what governments did in 2020 again, and again,
and again. As our new report,
Shattered dreams and lost
opportunities: a year in the fight to #KeepItOn,
dissects, there is no fathomable excuse to justify these
abhorrent government actions.”
The report’s key
findings from 2020 include:
There were
For
the third year in a row,
India shut down the
internet more than any other nation a total of
at least
109 times;
On February 24, three days after the people of Niger headed to the polls to vote for their next president, authorities shut down the internet.
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