The Kazakhstani regime, and, in particular, President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s lobbyists have done everything in their power to make the first meeting with the opposition politician particularly memorable.

In the last years, considerable criticism arose over the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), which used to be excessively passive in the wake of a growing trend of misuse of its mechanisms by authoritarian states.

Vladimir Kozlov, Kazakh dissident and leader of the biggest opposition party "Alga" was released from prison after nearly five years spent behind bars.

On behalf of the Open Dialog Foundation, non-governmental human rights organisation, we would like to congratulate you on your election as the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

On Friday 27 February, 2015, in the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, the Open Dialog Foundation presented its newest report „The Interpol system is in need of reform".

A decision was ratified by a Czech court to extradite Tatyana Paraskevich, former colleague of Kazakhstan opposition politician, Mukhtar Ablyazov to Ukraine.

Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered a hunt for those connected to Mukhtar Ablyazov. After Rome had deported his wife, came the time for Madrid to make a decision on extradition of Ablyazov’s bodyguard, Aleksandr Pavlov.

Spanish court Audiencia Nacional decides to extradite Aleksandr Pavlov to Kazakhstan. Back in his country Pavlov faces several years’ imprisonment.