Activists in Kazakhstan say they are being arrested and beaten as police crack down after unrest.
The armed men in uniforms checked every ward, shouting that they were looking for people wounded in mass unrest that had left scores dead.
Like many others, she joined what started as peaceful protests against fuel price rises in early January. Kazakhstan has some of the world's largest oil reserves but most of the population doesn't share in the wealth. Like many others, Asel, who is 57, is now worried that she could be arrested and accused of participating in the unrest.Kazakhstan's prosecutor-general's office has opened nearly 700 criminal cases. Some of those accused are charged with terrorism, murder and seeking to overthrow the government.
"There is no presumption of innocence," said Bakhytzhan Toregozhina, a human rights activist in Almaty. "They are all potential terrorists for the authorities and they try to force confessions out of them."
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