Kazakh Women Picket Chinese Consulate In Almaty Demanding Relatives Release
February 08, 2021 10:23 GMT
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February 08, 2021 18:28 GMT
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan Three women have demonstrated outside the Chinese Consulate in Kazakhstan s largest city, Almaty, to demand the release of their relatives in China s northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Farida Qabylbek, Gulnur Qosdauletqyzy, and Nurzat Ermekba displayed their relatives pictures and posters as they launched their protest on February 8.
Qabylbek said her husband, Rakhyzhan Zeinolla, who is a naturalized Kazakh citizen, spent 13 years in prison in Xinjiang on espionage charges before he was sent to a so-called reeducation camp, where he spent one year and is currently under house arrest.