Freedom of speech in Kazakhstan

In 2016, in an interview with the TV channel "Russia 24", Nazarbayev called the Internet a place where some people impose various ideas with the aim of influencing the domestic policies of states.

These same individuals write comments on behalf of those dissatisfied with the state's policy: Nazarbayev considers the authors of such posts "artificially created."

[5] To increase control over the actions of the citizens, the government amended the law on "Communications", which states that for each device that has access to the Internet it is necessary to establish the appropriate certificate on a mandatory basis, starting January 1, 2016.

[6] The government explained that the law is necessary to protect the personal information of citizens, but in reality, it allows the country's special services to fully identify all the subscriber's Internet traffic and, accordingly, to have all access to its network activity.

Since the beginning of 2010 in Kazakhstan, it was proposed to introduce mandatory fingerprinting with the entry of information into the passport and identity card.

Approximately since 2008, the use of punitive psychiatry was resumed in Kazakhstan, which can cost around $20,000 USD to diagnose "chronic neurasthenia" to lock up a person in an asylum.

The victims of punitive psychiatry were outstanding individuals such as the Nobel Prize laureate in literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn, academician and creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb Andrei Sakharov, as well as a politician and activist Valeria Novodvorskaya.

The presence of a profession and education also affects the outcome, if your true goal is to escape from the regime, and not improve your financial situation by emigrating to an economically developed state.