Kazakhstan - Journalist detained for peaceful solidarity activity in the country of living gulags

Be their voice! Dina raised her voice against tyranny.

Dina Baidildayeva is a Kazakh blogger and social networks editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She was detained by police for exercising her constitutional right to freedom of expression.



"Kazakhstan has never been a bastion of press freedom, but the arrests of four Almaty bloggers in the past week have put Internet commentators in the country’s cultural capital on high alert.

In the latest case Dina Baidildayeva was detained by police on February 8 after staging a one-woman show of solidarity with three jailed bloggers, who were imprisoned on February 5 on hooliganism charges that they denied."

Eurasianet.org (read the full text):
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68027
"Baidildayeva, who is a blogger and also a social networks editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, took to Republic Square opposite Almaty city hall waving a poster reading: “Freedom to bloggers – Shame on Yesimov.”

“Mr Yesimov, resign! Freedom to bloggers who were jailed just because they wanted to ask questions to Mayor Yesimov, because they are not satisfied with his work!” she said. “He only gathered bloggers that he liked and who were loyal to him, and that’s not what an intelligent government does!”

Police watched the five-minute protest before moving in to detain Baidildayeva at the scene after she had finished speaking and packed away her poster. She complained that they did not specify what crime she had committed."



Socialismkz.info
http://socialismkz.info/?p=10875

Azattyg.org.
http://www.azattyq.org/content/news/25257219.html

Dina's blog is also on my blog:
http://dinabaidildayeva.wordpress.com/

Dina being dragged off by the police (video 8:27):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1TP654L22M


According to my source the trial is tomorrow February 12, 10:00 in Almaty. The hearing was postponed due to media attention.

Kazakhstan - country of living Gulags:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2013/10/kazakhstans-living-gulags-concentration.html

Photo (above) : Eurasianet.org (Joanna Lillis)
Photo: Internet