Police abducted and arrested Kazakh citizen: Chinese police officers

Azatbek, now 47, was an ethnic Kazakh of Chinese nationality living in East Turkistan until 2016, when he traveled to Kazakhstan and acquired Kazakh nationality shortly thereafter.
Azatbek was arrested on Dec. 7, 2017, when he visited the Khorgos International Center for Boundary Cooperation, a special international trade zone on the Kazakhstan-China border. In 2018, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage. His passport was confiscated and he was forcibly taken to China by car.
Azatbek refused to go to the Chinese side of the border, so the police pushed and pulled him to the car. “While he was … resisting, we beat his hand a couple of times,” the officer said.
Kurmanalieva said that the accusation of "espionage" against her brother was slander and that the arrest of a Kazakh national by the Chinese police was disrespecting Kazakhstan’s sovereignty.
“If China had proof that my brother committed a crime, instead of crossing the Kazakhstan border to arrest him, they should’ve done so via Interpol or should’ve discussed it diplomatically with Kazakhstan,” she said. “I think what China did is an insult to Kazakhstan.”
She called on the Kazakh government to act on behalf of her brother and to protect and restore honor in Kazakhstan.
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