Freedom of Religion and Belief
KAZAKHSTAN: Criminal investigation into police torture of Jehovah’s Witness at a standstill Forum 18 (14.11.2025) – The criminal investigation into four police officers who tortured and threatened to murder Jehovah’s Witness Daniyar Tursynbayev in...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KAZAKHSTAN: Kentau police use torture, murder threats By Felix Corley Forum 18 (11.09.2025) – On 13 August, Police in Kentau in the southern Turkestan Region detained Jehovah’s Witness Daniyar Tursynbayev. After six hours of interrogation and after...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KAZAKHSTAN: One district, four police raids, seven fines By Felix Corley Forum18 (03.05.2024) – Police in Shu District of southern Kazakhstan raided four meetings for worship of three unregistered Protestant communities and issued six summary fines in March...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
KAZAKHSTAN: Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusion: Analysis of a case raised at the OSCE By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (16.12.2023) – In 2022 and in October 2023, a Kazakh citizen taking part in the annual conference...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
A cosmetic reform of the Religion Law USCIRF (26.12.2022) – https://bit.ly/3I40wcX – After a series of discussions carried out under the auspices of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Religious Freedom Working Group between 2019 and 2021, Kazakh officials stated that...
