NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM – Kanat Mussin, Chairman of the Committee on legislation and court and legal reform of the Majilis of the Kazakh Parliament, was elected as the judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazinform correspondent reports.
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Alnur Ilyashev, a Kazakh activist and blogger, did what many do when fed up with their governments: He complained on Facebook. Following a trial last summer that ended in his conviction, he was banned for five years from political and civic activism.
In a series of posts in March 2020, Ilyashev criticized Kazakhstan’s ruling party, Nur Otan, for its handling of the then-emerging coronavirus pandemic and more generally. The posts, however, led to his arrest in April 2020 for violating Article 274 of the Kazakh Criminal Code banning the “disseminat[ion of] knowingly false information that creates the danger of disrupting public order and causing substantial harm to the rights and legitimate interests of citizens or organizations or the interests of society or the state protected by law.”
Trial Observation Report: Kazakhstan v. Alnur Ilyashev Share:
From June 12 to June 22, 2020, the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights monitored the trial of Alnur Ilyashev in Kazakhstan as part of the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative. Ilyashev is a human rights activist and blogger. He was prosecuted under Article 274 of Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code for “disseminat[ing] knowingly false information” in a state of emergency on the basis of three Facebook posts that criticized the ruling Nur Otan party for corruption and incompetence, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The proceedings – held over videoconference because of COVID-19 – were marred by grave violations of Ilyashev’s right to a fair trial.
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Kudaibergen Zhubanov (1899-1938) is the Kazakh scientist, linguist, Turkologist, scholar, public and state figure, one of the organizers of the first Kazakh academy, the Kazakh affiliate of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Born in today’s Aktobe region he studied at the madrasah in Orenburg in 1914-1916. In 1928 graduated from Leningrad Institute of Oriental Languages, postgraduate program at the Institute of Oriental Languages and the Institute of Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.