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On 18 June 2024 in #Kyiv, the Tokayev-Nazarbayev regime organised the assassination of Aydos #Sadykov, a Kazakhstani opposition journalist and political refugee in #Ukraine. The shooter executed the journalist's head in front of his wife as they drove up to the courtyard of their flat during daylight hours.
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Sadykov's wife immediately named the one who ordered the political murder - the president of Kazakhstan Tokayev.
Sadykova noted that the family had received regular threats on their lives for criticising Tokayev. On the eve of the assassination, Sadykov released a video statement where he called Tokayev a "puppet of #Putin."
What is #Tokayev doing?
The very next day, fearing international accountability, Tokayev issued a statement "that the priority in the country is the rule of law".
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It is crucial to remind why Tokayev should not be believed. Politics is a world of perceptions. Tokayev understands this well and knows in practice that #propaganda has already helped him escape accountability:
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- for the torture, mass shootings and arbitrary arrests of more than 10,000 peaceful protesters in January 2022;
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- for helping #Russia circumvent international sanctions for 2.5 years;
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- for weaponising the #banking system, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws as a tool to financially exclude critics of the regime domestically and #transnationally;
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- for political persecution through INTERPOL, extraditions, and influencing justice and asylum authorities in Western countries, including the attempted kidnapping of Bota Jardemalie from #Belgium, the hunt by killers for Mukhtar #Ablyazov in #France, and other cases of transnational persecution of opposition and human rights defenders.
It is important to remind that Tokayev's regime gained access to Interpol's databases in December 2023 through a "silver notification". But regime of Tokayev is using not to combat with criminals, but to have just another tool to dispatch killers to an address anywhere in the world with jewellery precision against critics.
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This arbitrariness should be halted. I share this post on #Nostr because the most probably on other social media platforms it will be removed following multiple attacks and demands of Kazakhstani ministry of justice.
But we need to have public support. Only public pressure can help us to get Tokayev's international accountability.
