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Kazakh Police Kettle Freezing Protesters For Nine Hours, Blasting Blizzard Song
January 21, 2021 17:47 GMT
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An aggressive crowd-control tactic known as “kettling” has been taken to such an extreme against a few dozen protesters in Kazakhstan that human rights groups are calling it torture.
Kettling has caused controversy in the West, where it is used to contain crowds of more than 1,000 people that are deemed by authorities to include violent participants.
Rather than trying to arrest violent individuals or disperse a crowd en masse, police temporarily trap everyone together within a small area only gradually allowing people to leave. Usually, crowds are blockaded for a few hours or less.