Police detained dozens of opposition protesters in Kazakhstan’s largest city on Saturday after the exiled nemesis of long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev called for rallies across the country.
An AFP correspondent saw a mixture of plainclothes police wearing black and officers in uniform detain at least 30 protesters, some of whom were elderly, and place them in police vans in the former capital Almaty as they gathered for a planned demonstration.
The rare opposition protest ostensibly backing educational reforms was called for on social media by Mukhtar Ablyazov, an exiled oligarch who is 77-year-old Nazarbayev’s most significant political opponent.
Nazarbayev has ruled Kazakhstan for nearly three decades, tolerating almost no opposition at home. A court in the…
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