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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Kazakh prosecutor's office arrests 35 rioters

2022-02-08

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Rasul Nazyrov

[RIA Novosti] Among the rioters arrested in Kazakhstan are 35 members of banned extremist movements, Rizabek Ozharov, head of the special prosecutors service at the Prosecutor General's Office, said.

"As of today, there are 35 members of banned extremist movements among those arrested," Ozharov said at a briefing on Monday.

I wish they would clarify whether they mean jihadis, capitalists, populists, or old-fashioned Communists applying their training in unexpected ways.

So, according to him, a group of criminally oriented members of a destructive religious movement was detained in Alma-Ata.
Here is a list of banned organizations in the Russian Federation. Prolly applies to Kazakhstan as well.
"During the arrest, firearms were found ready for use. They coordinated the actions of their group. At the same time, one part was on the barricades in the lower part of the city, and the other was on the square," Ozharov explained.

In early January, mass protests took place in Kazakhstan. In the first days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of prices for liquefied gas.

So populists?

Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons.

Not the usual action of people protesting high prices, or are the rules different over there?

The authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and carried out a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN , about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people died, including 19 security officials.

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