Kazakhstan arresting small children for peaceful protest

* The regime is arresting small children for peaceful protest against eviction.

* News about human rights defender and lawyer Vadim Kuramshin

* Human rights report 2013

* Dictator Nazarbayev fearing social media

* The 3 "brothers" (dictators): Nazarbayev, Putin and Lukashenka





Police arresting children (shocking video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVdE3EiLenE
The regime is arresting small children for peaceful protest against eviction.


Schoolteacher against police action:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68120
"Schoolteacher Yelena Akhmetova staged her one-woman protest in downtown Almaty with a banner reading: “Our children are not criminals.” She was remonstrating against heavy-handed police actions at a housing protest in Astana on March 6, when police rounded up a group of children while detaining their mothers for protesting over housing rights. Video from Radio Azattyk showed shocking scenes of screaming children being herded into police buses as their mothers were detained under strict laws regulating the right to public assembly in Kazakhstan."


Campaign Kazakhstan:
http://campaignkazakhstan.org/index.php/2014/02/25/eu-parliamentary-committee-on-human-rights-asked-to-draw-up-blacklist-of-kazakh-government-officials/
"The Committee on Human Rights and the delegates assured those present that they would definitely visit one of the political prisoners at their place of detention.  Most likely it would be Vladimir Kozlov, although the names of Roza Tuletaeva and Vadim Kuramshin were also put forward.   Meetings with the representatives of the opposition and trade unions would also be arranged."
 


Human rights report 2013:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/220605.pdf
 "US State Department Human Rights Report is now published - it contains 37 pages on Kazakhstan and includes sections on Freedom of Speech and Press, Political Prisoners, Corruption, and others. It states that "Kazakhstan law does not provide for an independent judiciary". (via Mukhtar Dzhakisev)



Dictator Nazarbayev is fearing; "the methods of influence and information technologies have been changed these days." -  an apparent reference to the Internet and social media:
http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakstan-nazarbaev-provacteurs-blogger-jailed/25278989.html
"Tsukanov was arrested last week on his way to the meeting of Almaty Mayor Akhmetzhan Esimov with city residents. --- No official explanation has been given for Tsukanov's sentence."


Have a look at the 3 "brothers" - dictators:
http://rus.azattyq.org/content/krizis-v-ukraine-reaktsia-nazarbaeva/25284719.html
Nazarbayev: the events in Ukraine "a coup"



Remembering former presidential Andrei Sannikov's words about dictators at Brussels Forum March 2013:

"Today the free world’s fundamental values are under attack. Unfortunately, dictators’ cooperation proves to be very effective. Sometimes they are even more effective than the democratic world. This is what the democratic opposition is constantly speaking about, and it should be taken into consideration. For example, the Syrians that live in England appeal the Parliament of the UK not asking to discuss Syria – they demanded to increase pressure on Lukashenka who helps the regimes of Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dictators always help each other." (A. Sannikov March 16 2013 at Brussels forum)

"I remain an optimist, do you know why? In jail and after release I have been feeling an unprecedented solidarity from the entire world: from Europe, the U.S., and, of course, from Belarus itself. And this support and solidarity that came from common people and from the civil society were enough to make me an optimist." (A. Sannikov)



World report 2014 HRW
http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/kazakhstan









Earlier:  Journalist detained for peaceful solidarity activity in the country of living gulags http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2014/02/kazakhstan.html





Photo: KL