Ingancio Sanchez Amor, addressed a letter to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly of the French Republic, E. Guigou, requesting that it be delivered to all Committee members. In his letter, he appealed to the French government not to extradite the Mukhtar Ablyazov.

The MEPs Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Michał Boni (Poland), Pavel Svoboda, Tomas Zdechovsky (Czech Republic) and Tunne Kelam (Estonia) addressed an appeal to France’s highest authorities in defence of Mukhtar Ablyazov.

Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, addressed an appeal to the Prime Minister of France, Manuel Valls and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Victor Shokin concerning the Kazakh dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov.

Rakhat Aliyev and I knew one another for more than 30 years, ever since our student days. I knew Rakhat very well. Many were familiar with the period of our "warlike" relations, when Rakhat was at the peak of his political power and administrative influence.

Federica Mogherini, replied to a letter from MEPs of the progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) at the European Parliament concerning mass-scale abuse of the system of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) by Kazakh authorities.

Despite being in receipt of permission from the Prefecture, the President of the Open Dialog Foundation, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, and the Kazakh oppositionist, Muratbek Ketebayev, were denied the right to submit a letter addressed to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, at Hôtel Matignon.

“Rescue Ablyazov from Putin and Nazarbayev” – this is the appeal from Kazakhstan activists to the President of France, Francois Hollande, and the Prime Minister Manuel Valls

The French media took a closer look at the case of the Kazakh dissident and oppositionist Mukhtar Ablyazov. Internet portals and newspapers looked at, among others, ambiguous connections of European and French officials with their Kazakh counterparts

French government to consider whether Russia or Ukraine can be trusted to give fair trial and fair treatment to Ablyazov, and whether he risks illegal transfer to Kazakhstan.

Cassation Court to announce on march 4 whether french government can issue extradition decree or whether third court must review case. Ablyazov defense vows to appeal against any extradition decree and to prevail in saving dissident from inevitable harm if sent to Russia or Ukraine.

Ablyazov talked in an interview for the Respublika portal about privatisation in Kazakhstan in the 1990’s, which only established the positions of the ruling elites, and about how Nazarbayev granted himself more privileges before ultimately bestowing upon himself the title “Leader of the Nation”

Interviewed by the independent portal Republika Mukhtar Ablyazov talked about December 1986 and the so-called ‘Kazakh young people’s revolt’.