Longing for Justice in Kazakhstan
January 2024 marks two years since Kazakhstan experienced large-scale anti-government protests, in which at least 238 people were killed. In the weeks after these events, dubbed “Qandy Qantar” (Kazakh for ‘Bloody January’), the authorities committed a cascade of human rights violations, from arbitrary arrests of protesters and others to torture and ill-treatment of detainees. At least six people died in custody.