The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan opened criminal cases on the facts of organizing and participating in mass riots. The Kazakh state television channel reports this in Telegram.Swag 24».
A pre-trial investigation has also been launched into the commission of an act of terrorism. For this purpose, an interdepartmental investigative operational group was created in the country by order of the president. Its composition included the most experienced employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KNB and other law enforcement agencies under the leadership of a special prosecutor.
Punishment under these articles of the Criminal Code provides from eight years of imprisonment to life imprisonment with deprivation of citizenship.
It will be recalled that protests in Kazakhstan began on January 2, when hundreds of residents of the oil city of Zhanaozen went to the building of the akimat, protesting against the increase in prices for liquefied gas. In the future protests also began in other cities. By January 4, the total number of protesters reached approximately 10. man
On January 5, the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokaev dismissed the government. He also instructed the antimonopoly body to introduce state price regulation for liquefied gas, gasoline, and diesel for 180 days.
He was on the entire territory of Kazakhstan a state of emergency was introduced.
In the evening of January 5, Tokaev announced the "terrorist threat" in Kazakhstan and asked for help from the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which, apart from Kazakhstan, includes Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
