{"id":47977,"date":"2021-02-21T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=165030"},"modified":"2021-02-21T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:43:42","slug":"majlis-podcast-despite-promises-are-rights-abuses-in-kazakhstan-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/majlis-podcast-despite-promises-are-rights-abuses-in-kazakhstan-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Majlis Podcast: Despite Promises, Are Rights Abuses In Kazakhstan Getting Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Kazakhstan\u2019s first president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, officially stepped down from office in March 2019 and Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev became president, Toqaev promised changes to a system that had not changed very much in nearly 28 years.<\/p>\n

There were many fair words about reforms, but nearly two years later Kazakhstan\u2019s political system looks to be much the same as it has been.<\/p>\n

On February 10, the European Parliament released a joint motion<\/a><\/strong> for a resolution that detailed the many areas where Kazakhstan continues to fall well short of its commitments to respect basic rights.<\/p>\n

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Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev (file photo)<\/span><\/div>\n

Kazakh authorities responded with the now-common defense that the criticisms were superficial and failed to take into account all of the changes that are happening in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

On this week’s Majlis podcast, RFE\/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on Kazakhstan in which some say the situation is actually becoming worse, not better, despite Toqaev\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s guests are: from Almaty: Yevgeny Zhovtis, veteran rights defender and director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law<\/a><\/strong>, and Marius Fossum, the Central Asia representative of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee<\/a><\/strong>; and from Prague: Aigerim Toleukhanova, a journalist in RFE\/RL\u2019s Kazakh Service<\/a><\/strong>, and Bruce Pannier, author of the Qishloq Ovozi blog.<\/p>\n

Listen to the podcast above or subscribe to the Majlis on iTunes<\/a><\/strong> or on Google Podcasts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

This post was originally published on Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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