Preventive politically motivated persecution of the civil activist Rakilya BEKNAZAROVA in connection with the peaceful protests on 1 May 2021.

28 April 2021, Almaty

Preventive politically motivated persecution of the civil activist Rakilya #BEKNAZAROVA in connection with the peaceful protests on 1 May 2021.

Police officers detained and presumably have taken Rakilya BEKNAZAROVA to the Turksib District Department of Internal Affairs.

Update: Rakilya BEKNAZAROVA has been arbitrarily detained for 12 days for “violating the law on peaceful assembly”.