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Police in Kazakhstan detained protesters demanding justice for relatives killed during a 2022 crackdown on anti-government demonstrations. About a dozen people gathered outside the presidential palace in Astana on January 15. They said Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev should be held accountable for issuing a "shoot to kill" order to security forces who violently put down a wave of protests two years earlier during a period of unrest known as Bloody January.
Air-raid sirens blasted through the city of Sevastopol in Crimea as Ukraine appears to be continuing its campaign in the Russia-occupied region, one day after Kyiv said it hit a Russian military command post and a military unit in separate strikes on the peninsula.
The United States has put Azerbaijan and three other countries on a watch list for engaging in or tolerating “severe violations of religious freedom” after Baku took over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.