Aset Abishev

Affiliated media: Blogger, civil activist

Incident date: November 29, 2018

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The civil activist, who has been in detention for five months on charges of supporting an "extremist organisation", tried to appeal against the court ruling on the ban of "Democratic Choice". Two trials, in one of which Abishev is a defendant and a plaintiff in the other, took place in the same court on the same day.