Trial Observation Report: Kazakhstan v. Alnur Ilyashev
Trial Observation Report: Kazakhstan v. Alnur Ilyashev Share: From June 12 to June 22, 2020, the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights monitored the trial of Alnur Ilyashev in Kazakhstan as part of the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative. Ilyashev is a human rights activist and blogger. He was prosecuted under Article 274 of Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code for “disseminat[ing] knowingly false information” in a state of emergency on the basis of three Facebook posts that criticized the ruling Nur Otan party for corruption and incompetence, including in resp...