Spouse of journalist Aydos Sadykov blames Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for assault final month.
A Kazakh dissident has died in Ukraine, two weeks after being shot exterior his house final month.
Kyiv-based journalist Aydos Sadykov was shot within the head whereas seated in a automobile together with his spouse on June 18. Ukrainian prosecutors suspect that the “rigorously deliberate” assault was carried out by a pair of suspected assassins from Kazakhstan.
Sadykov’s spouse, Natalya Sadykova, blamed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the loss of life of her husband, who was an outspoken critic of the Central Asian nation’s management.
“My beloved husband, father of our three kids, nice son of the Kazakh individuals. Aydos devoted his life to Kazakhstan and suffered martyrdom by the hands of killers,” Sadykova mentioned in a Fb submit.
“His loss of life is on Tokayev’s conscience,” she declared.
Who’re the suspects?
In response to the workplace of Ukraine’s prosecutor common, two Kazakh residents, considered one of them a former policeman, are suspected of taking pictures Sadykov. Each left the nation on the identical day, they are saying, escaping to Moldova.
Whereas Kazakhstan has since detained one of many suspects, named as Altai Zhakanbayev, it has mentioned it might not hand him over to Ukraine. The second suspect stays at massive.
President Tokayev instructed Kazakh legislation enforcement businesses to cooperate with Ukraine to find the suspects, his spokesperson mentioned final month, in line with Russian information businesses.
“Astana is able to cooperate with Ukraine, together with by Interpol,” the spokesperson was cited as saying.
‘Deliver them to justice’
Human Rights Watch has referred to as for an investigation into the taking pictures of Sadykov, who ran a YouTube channel usually crucial of Kazakhstan’s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev after which his successor Tokayev.
“The information of the assault on Sadykov throughout broad daylight within the Kyiv metropolis centre is deeply disturbing,” mentioned Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch final month.
“Ukrainian authorities ought to guarantee Sydykov’s security, determine the attacker, convey them to justice, and decide who ordered the assault. Kazakhstan ought to present it’s dedicated to the rule of legislation throughout this course of.”