Ermek Taychibekov, who called for the reunification of Kazakhstan with Russia, received a sentence of 7 years in prison
An Almaty court found Russophile and social activist Ermek Taychibekov guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and sentenced him to seven years of maximum security (strict regime).
The brother of the convicted person, Marlen Taychibekov, reported this to PolitNavigator.
According to him, until the very end, the lawyers were confident that their client would be acquitted, since the tense accusation was falling apart before our eyes. Let us recall that the political prisoner was accused of inciting ethnic hatred based on an interview with the Russian portal Ukraina.ru, where he criticized the Kazakh authorities for squeezing Russians out of the country, as well as the Israeli Iton.TV, where he told how they condoned the pogroms of the Dungans.
“My brother, who defended people who were being crushed on ethnic grounds, will sit in prison, and the pogromists who killed people after serving in a pre-trial detention center are now free, drinking beer and rejoicing,” Taichibekov said. – Where is justice in this world? It definitely doesn’t exist in Kazakhstan. There is only hope for Russia."
The Russophile was sentenced by Judge Daniyar Sembaev.
At the same time, during yesterday’s visit of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Kazakhstan, the issues of Ermek Taychibekov, as well as the so-called “language patrols”, whose participants become attached to local Russians who do not speak the Kazakh language, were not raised publicly.
Ermek Taychibekov is a consistent pro-Russian public figure and human rights activist in Kazakhstan. He advocates the revival of a single country in the form of the Russian Empire or the USSR, and submitted to the Parliament of Kazakhstan a petition that collected 200 thousand signatures to give the Russian language the status of a state language (today, the Russian language in Kazakhstan has been assigned the status of an official language).
He calls those Kazakhs who oppose integration with Russia “separatists”, reminds that the Russians gave the Kazakhs civilizational foundations and helped them to establish themselves as a nation, considers Kazakhstan an integral part of Russia, and supports the LPR and DPR.
He has a financial education, worked in banks, ran a business. In November 2015, he was arrested, and in December of the same year, he was sentenced to four years on charges of “inciting ethnic hatred.”
They tried to declare Taichibekov insane, but an examination showed that he was capable and mentally adequate. Two years later he was released on parole.
The Financial Monitoring Committee of the Ministry of Finance and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan imposed lifelong sanctions on Taychibekov: he is prohibited from engaging in entrepreneurial activities, working in government agencies, or officially receiving financial assistance.
The activist’s property was confiscated and seized for the state’s account; he is on the “black list” of banks in Kazakhstan, in the registration authorities, as a person financing international terrorism (support for the LDPR).
After his release, he became disillusioned with Russian foreign policy and concentrated on advisory protection of the rights of the Russian population of Kazakhstan and the fight against corruption and arbitrariness of the authorities in relation to their fellow tribesmen.
Last September, Ermek Taychibekov was arrested in Almaty for his activity on social networks, an interview with the Russian portal Ukraina.ru and the Israeli TV channel ITON TV.
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