Five Kazakh protesters, who have been searching for their relatives in East Turkistan for several years, were stopped by Kazakh police when they tried to approach the Chinese consulate in Almaty.
According to the report of Free Europe, on December 4, five Kazakh protesters, consisting of a man and a woman, demanded the release of their relatives imprisoned in the prison camp in East Turkistan and wanted to express their dissatisfaction in front of the Chinese consulate in Almaty. But they have been stopped by the Kazakh police.
It has been 1,000 days since they have been talking about their families in East Turkistan as they are imprisoned in prison camps because they are Muslims or rumors on the Internet.
Despite the fact that Kazakhstan has the second largest population of Uyghurs in the world, and despite the fact that a large number of Kazakhs, in addition to Uyghurs, are imprisoned in prison camps in East Turkistan, the Kazakh government refrains from publicly criticizing the policies of the Kyrgyz state.