Oil workers from Zhanaozen carried out a protest last week in Astana. Around 150 laid-off employees of the BerAli Mangistau Company spent a night outside the building of the ministry of energy, demanding to be hired directly by Ozenmunaigas, the principal oil and gas producer in the Mangistau province and subsidiary of the state-owned Kazmunaigas. In the evening of April 11, the oil workers were detained and some even suffered injuries as they were dragged into police vans. ....