Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Kazakhstan
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: November//2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Yerkinbek Nurakyn
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Yerkinbek Nurakyn is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2025, Kazakh officials arrested Nurakyn and 18 other human rights activists for protesting China's arrest of a Kazakh truck driver and its broader abuse of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims in Xinjiang Province, China. Chinese authorities have perpetrated genocide and crimes against humanity against Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang on the basis of religion since 2017.
In April 2026, District Court Judge Yerzhan Baibolov sentenced Nurakyn to 5 years' imprisonment for "inciting ethnic hatred."
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Kazakhstan
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: November//2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Tursynbek Kabi
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Tursynbek Kabi is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2025, Kazakh officials arrested Kabi and 18 other human rights activists for protesting China's arrest of a Kazakh truck driver and its broader abuse of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims in Xinjiang Province, China. Chinese authorities have perpetrated genocide and crimes against humanity against Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang on the basis of religion since 2017.
In April 2026, District Court Judge Yerzhan Baibolov sentenced Kabi to 5 years' imprisonment for "inciting ethnic hatred."
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Kazakhstan
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: November//2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Bekzat Maksutkhan
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Bekzat Maksutkhan is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2025, Kazakh officials arrested Maksutkhan and 18 other human rights activists for protesting China's arrest of a Kazakh truck driver and its broader abuse of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims in Xinjiang Province, China. Chinese authorities have perpetrated genocide and crimes against humanity against Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang on the basis of religion since 2017.
In April 2026, District Court Judge Yerzhan Baibolov sentenced Maksutkhan to 5 years' imprisonment for "inciting ethnic hatred."