{"id":5949,"date":"2016-05-23T23:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soros.kz\/soros_kazakhstan_concerning_human_rights_violations_on_may\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:20:57","slug":"soros_kazakhstan_concerning_human_rights_violations_on_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/soros_kazakhstan_concerning_human_rights_violations_on_may\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation in relation to violations of human rights on May 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div id=\"structPageContent\">\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div id=\"structPageContent\">\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div class=\"published\">Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan expresses its deep concern at the numerous violations of human rights by law enforcement officials on May 21, 2016.<\/div>\n<div id=\"fullText\">\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div id=\"structPageContent\">\n<div id=\"fullText\">\n<p>The police conducted massive arrests with gross violations of human rights and legislation in a number of cities of Kazakhstan in order to prevent protests. The detainees were held for a long time without access to duty lawyers and human rights activists. Preventive detention of human rights defenders contradicts the provisions of the UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Arrests of journalists performing their professional duties at the scene are unacceptable for the state that has assumed the obligation to ensure rights of citizens to access to information.<\/p>\n<p>Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan calls upon the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to actually ensure observation of key human rights and freedoms, especially in the run-up to Kazakhstan\u2019s defense of the State Report on the implementation of the International\u00a0Covenant\u00a0on\u00a0Civil\u00a0and\u00a0Political\u00a0Rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\">\n<div class=\"atclear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"rightColumn\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan expresses its deep concern at the numerous violations of human rights by law enforcement officials on May 21, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}