Human Rights in Kazakhstan, issue 6 (excerpts)

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Human Rights in Kazakhstan, issue 6 (excerpts)


INFORMATION NEWSLETTER 
OF KAZAKHSTAN INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW

"HUMAN RIGHTS IN KAZAKHSTAN AND ALL OVER THE WORLD"
N 8 (May 13 - June 3, 2000)


CONTENTS

Kazakhstan:

* A massive clampdown on the political opposition in   Kazakhstan.
* Another independent newspaper is closed down in Kazakhstan
* Provocation aimed at slandering well-known political scientist
Masanov
* Statement of the International Foundation in Defense of Freedom of 
Expression "Adil Soz'
* Kazakh authorities use new repressive instruments
* Persecution of opposition leaders
* An unknown in Moscow has stabbed the director of Eurasia Information
and Analysis Center. What is the meaning of this attack?
* Pensioners of Kazakhstan are protecting their right of peaceful
assembly
* Commercial organization is also trying to protect it's rights
through a mass-meeting 
* The community-based Council on Ethics and Information Discussion has
conducted its first session. 
* New facts of torture during investigation and interrogation. 
* The rating of Kazakhstani politicians and public figures according
to the results of expert polls in March 2000
* An interview with the senior prison official of the country

..............

Provocation aimed at slandering  well-known political scientist
Masanov 

Well-known political scientist Nurbulat Masanov is once again in the
center of public attention. Last week one of the anonymous web-sites
have laid out an interview that Masanov allegedly gave to the
journalist of ITAR-TASS news agency Igor Cherepanov. This interview
contains pronouncements that insult Kazakh people, their history and
language. Later the audio tape of this interview mysteriously appeared
in the offices of several newspapers and TV newsrooms. Masanov denied
ever giving such an interview and Igor Cherepanov confirmed that he
never spoke with Masanov on any issue similar to what is said in the
interview. It came out that the whole interview is fake, and it was
published in order to slander Professor Masanov  who is thought to be
one of the main authors of the opposition ideology. On the other hand
these unknown black PR specialists have tried to  provoke indignation
of Kazakhs, particularly of the nationalist and patriotic
organizations, in order to strain the relations between  the
national-patriots and democratic opposition. This shows that authors
of this fake interview could be found among those interested in
splitting the opposition and discrediting its leaders.

..............


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