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- Authorities successful Kazakhstan arrested erstwhile interior curate Erlan Turgumbayev connected Tuesday.
- The Prosecutor General's Office detained Turgumbayev connected charges of "abuse of powerfulness and charismatic authority resulting successful sedate consequences."
- His charges were linked to nan deadly constabulary crackdown during nan 2022 unrest, authorities said.
Authorities in Kazakhstan arrested a erstwhile interior curate connected Tuesday, successful relationship pinch deadly constabulary crackdown connected unrest that gripped nan state successful 2022, Kazakh news media reported.
The Prosecutor General's Office announced connected Monday that Erlan Turgumbayev was detained connected charges of "abuse of powerfulness and charismatic authority resulting successful sedate consequences" successful nan harsh crackdown of riots by nan police. Kazakhstan's Ministry of Internal Affairs is successful complaint of nan nation's constabulary force.
The unrest started successful nan metropolis of Zhanaozen connected Jan. 2, 2022, erstwhile residents protested a crisp summation successful nan costs of liquefied petroleum gas, commonly utilized arsenic substance for vehicles successful Kazakhstan.
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Those protests evolved into criticisms of corruption, economical inequality against erstwhile leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose critics opportunity person been profiting disconnected nan country's immense power wealthiness ever since assuming agency successful 1991.
A constabulary car connected occurrence arsenic riot constabulary hole to extremity protesters successful nan halfway of Almaty, Kazakhstan, connected Jan. 5, 2022. Authorities successful Kazakhstan person arrested a erstwhile interior curate successful relationship pinch deadly unrest that gripped nan state successful 2022. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov, File)
Nazarbayez resigned from nan presidency successful 2019 but still held important powerfulness astatine nan clip of nan protests arsenic caput of nan Kazakhstan's security council.
In Almaty, nan country's largest city, protests turned convulsive and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued shoot-to-kill orders arsenic demonstrators stormed authorities buildings. Officials said 238 group were killed successful nan unrest.
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Tokayev past pushed an array of reforms, including limiting nan presidency to a azygous seven-year term. He besides removed Nazarbayev arsenic caput of nan information assembly and nan superior city, which had been named Nur-Sultan successful Nazarbayev's honor, reverted to its erstwhile sanction of Astana.
Turgumbayev was relieved of work a period aft nan unrest.
