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The Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty and the Open Dialog Foundation convene in Geneva, at the United Nations Human Rights Council, a side-event on: Human rights in Kazakhstan The Zhanaozen processand a New Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 15.00-16.30
Room XXVII, Palais des Nations
Among the main topics of the discussion:
Conflicts between the political elite and the geopolitical future of Kazakhstan; The Zhanaozen trials and their meaning for the regime's credibility; A New Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the EU; Wind of change or just an apparent liberalization; A new wave of political repression after the resolution of the European Parliament
Panelists
Antonio Stango
member of the General Council of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty
former Project Director of Freedom House Kazakhstan Human Rights Training and Support Program
Lyudmyla Kozlovska
vice-president of the Open Dialog Foundation
Alla Zlobina and Zhanar Kassymbekova
journalists of the newspaper “Respublika” (present at all trials in Aktau)
Assel Nurgaziyeva
human rights defender and the representative to the OSCE in Zhanaozen trials up to the 2nd May 2012
Amangeldy Shormanbayev
lawyer and human rights defender
Igor Vinyavskiy
editor in chief of the newspaper "Vzglyad"
Muratbek Ketebayev
president of the Civil Activity Foundation
Irina Petrushova
founder and editor in chief of the newspaper “Respublika”
Yuliya Vassilyeva
member of the Board of Hands Off Cain, lawyer
former director of Pavlodar branch of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law
The event comes as a follow-up of the meeting held on May 16 in the headquarters of the party in Rome between Radical Party’s and Open Dialog Foundation’s representatives with a delegation of political dissidents from Kazakhstan.
