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An independent newspaper in Kazakhstan has lost the appeal against its suspension.
A Kazakh court has ruled that the forced psychiatric hospitalization of a lawyer who complained about a government official is legal.
Prison inmates in Kazakhstan's western city of Oral have injured themselves to protest their treatment.
Hearings have resumed into whether a Kazakh lawyer was legally admitted into a psychiatric hospital.
Kazakhstan's Supreme Court has refused to review the case of jailed opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov.
A Kazakh district court has ordered an Orthodox priest deported for administrative violations.
Investigations are being launched into claims that more than 30 young patients contracted the hepatitis C virus while undergoing treatment for leukemia at a medical center in the Kazakh capital.
The chairman of Kazakhstan's opposition Azat (Free) party, Bolat Abilov, and opposition activist Marat Zhanuzaqov have been detained in Almaty.
A prominent defender of inmates' rights in Kazakhstan, who is himself imprisoned, has been awarded with the 18th Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize.
A traffic accident involving a gasoline tanker truck caused a huge fire in the center of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty.
A Kazakh opposition activist detained in Poland has been released.
Dozens of homeowners have held a rally in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, protesting "excessive mortgage interest rates and foreclosures."
Eight men have been convicted on terrorism-related charges in Kazakhstan's western city of Atyrau on June 5.
A court in Kazakhstan's western city of Atyrau has sentenced several people for illegally arranging travel documents for a fugitive banker's relatives.
The leader of the nongovernmental organization Union of Kazakhstan's Muslims, Murat Telibekov, has been sentenced to seven days in jail.
Six activists and oil workers whose jail terms were communted to suspended sentences in connection with antigovernment protests that sparked a deadly police response in 2011 have been released from prison.
Authorities have searched the offices of the nongovernmental organization Arqa Suyeu (Support) in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, on the eve of an important award ceremony.
A Kazakh high court orders the release of six people convicted for their roles in the 2011 mass disturbances in Kazakhstan’s southwestern town of Zhanaozen.
The demonstrators from around Kazakhstan have started their protests in downtown Astana on May 21, demanding the government intervene over what they say are excessive mortgage interest rates and frequent foreclosures.
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