Plot Protests in Kazakhstan amid rising gas prices
1,822 criminal cases have been opened in Kazakhstan on the facts of terrorism, murder, and the use of violence against government officials, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Yerlan Turgumbayev said, TASS reports.
It is specified that 116 of them were transferred to special prosecutors for further investigation.According to the data of the Prosecutor General of the republic, the courts have administratively arrested 3,314 persons, according to the results of consideration of 1,884 appeals, 1,083 persons were released from arrest.
Currently, military facilities, including weapons and ammunition depots, are under heavy security.
Earlier, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that the basis of the January riots was an unacceptable gap between the incomes of different segments of the population.
According to the president, the incomes of half of the population of Kazakhstan do not exceed 50 thousand tenge ($ 115) per month, at the same time, according to international experts, 162 people own half of the country’s fortune. Terrorists, militants and the conspirators behind them took advantage of this, the Kazakh leader explained.