Using the Law to Advance Oppression: How Kazakhstan Presents a Veneer of Due Process to Silence Opposition

Ben Keith in Lawfare on 10 February 2022

In an article published by Lawfare, Ben Keith looks at how the Kazakh regime is using legislation and the criminal courts to silence opposition. The article makes reference to one of Ben Keith’s clients, Barlyk Mendygaziyev, a U.S.-based Kazakh businessman. Mendygaziyev has been the subject of a bogus Interpol red notice and state-led raiding in which his family assets were seized and Kazakh prosecutors charged him with a host of crimes, including “tax evasion,” “financing terrorist activities” and “drug possession.”’

The original article published by Lawfare can be read in full here.