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Kazakh authorities have refused to grant citizenship to a trio of ethnic Kazakhs who fled China’s Xinjiang province at the height of the internment campaign, according to an RFE/RL report.
Qaisha Aqan, Murager Alimuly, and Kaster Musakhanuly are three of a handful of ethnic Kazakhs who fled Xinjiang in 2018 and 2019 only to be caught up in an awkward vortex of domestic politics, international pressures, and the legacies of ethnicity and nationalism in Kazakhstan.
When Kazakhstan became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had the unique position of being the only Soviet republic in which the namesake ethnicity was not a majority.
Kazakhstan Denies Citizenship To Three Ethnic Kazakhs Who Fled Xinjiang
May 24, 2021 13:34 GMT
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Kazakhstan has officially refused to grant citizenship to three ethnic Kazakhs who fled China s northwestern region of Xinjiang for illegally entering the country as they fled persecution.
Qaisha Aqan, Murager Alimuly, and Kaster Musakhanuly are three of several ethnic Kazakhs from Xinjiang residing in Kazakhstan after they were convicted for illegally crossing the Chinese-Kazakh border in recent years, but later given
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Kazakh Activism Against China s Internment Camps Is Broken, But Not Dead
April 04, 2021 12:12 GMT
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When 67-year-old pensioner Qalida Akytkhan decided to join a small protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, it was three years after three of her sons were detained at a so-called reeducation camp in China s northwestern Xinjiang region.
Akytkhan has since become a mainstay at the pickets that, despite police intimidation, have endured outside the consulate since early February. She has joined dozens of other protesters who say their relatives are missing, jailed, or trapped in China s ongoing crackdown.
United Nations human rights officials estimate that a million or more Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities are detained at camps in a vast Chinese internment system.
Two Ethnic Kazakhs From China Violently Attacked In Kazakhstan
January 22, 2021 10:48 GMT
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan Two ethnic Kazakhs from China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang with temporary refugee status in Kazakhstan have been
violently attacked in the Central Asian country.
Bekzat Maqsutkhan of the Naghyz Atazhurt (Real Fatherland) human rights group told RFE/RL that, late on January 21, an unknown assailant attacked Qaisha Aqan near her house in Almaty, hitting her head at least twice with a heavy object before trying to suffocate her. Qaisha says she lost consciousness and woke up some time later lying in the snow. She was then able to call police and an ambulance, Maqsutkhan said.