CHINA-KAZAKHSTAN: ANTI-CHINA PROTESTS IN KAZAKHSTAN

Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported that police in Kazakhstan on July 1, detained a handful of activists long involved in protesting Chinese policies in Xinjiang. The detained were: Baibolat Kunbolat and his mother, Zauatkhan Tursyn and Bekzat Maqsutkhan, the leader of Nagiz Atajurt, is also presumed to have been detained the same day. Kunbolat was released from custody on June 28, following an eight-day detention for filming a rally outside the consulate. A small group of activists, many older women, have been staging small protests outside the Chinese consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, for months. While the picketing has yielded little to no reaction from Chinese authorities, it has triggered several arrests and the issuing of fines.







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