After decades of working for the Qazaqstan Radio and Television Corporation, he founded his own YouTube channel, Ne Deidi (lit.
[1][8][7] Mukhammedkarim was initially rejected as a candidate, but after suing the electoral commission, he was added to the ballot; he was ultimately not elected as a deputy.
[6] On 1 May 2023, Mukhammedkarim was arrested again, and detained for a further 25 days, after mentioning in a YouTube video a rally that had been called for by Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, a political party officially denoted as "extremist" by the Kazakhstani government.
[14][1] The charges were linked to an interview Mukhammedkarim had posted on Ne Deidi with Mukhtar Ablyazov, the exiled head of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, who had been considered an extremist since a 2018 court ruling.
[1] Mukhammedkarim's solicitor, Ghalym Nurpeisov, appealed the decision, citing his poor health due to experiencing kidney issues following his hunger strike.
[16] That same month, the Minister of Information, Darkhan Kydyraly, publicly stated that Mukhammedkarim had been arrested for his political views and not due to his journalism.
Additional information cited by prosecutors as evidence of funding extremism stemmed from Mukhammedkarim commenting on his interview with Ablyazov with a link to donate to him.