(New York) Serikzhan Bilash, a human rights advocate, has released 12 pages of police documents addressed to the city court of Almaty, Kazakhstan. These documents sought to prove to the Court and the Kazakh government that Serikzhan absconded his probation, justifying a “most wanted” status. However, Serikzhan left Kazakhstan legally in 2019. Serizkzhan believes the Chinese Communist Party remains the real manipulator due to his advocacy in Xinjiang.
The 12-page police report claimed authorities searched Serikzhan’s residence and various addresses at different times and found that he did not live in those residences, suggesting that he fled his probation. According to Serikzhan, he left Kazakhstan legally on November 30, 2019, when his probation ended. The Kazakh government may want to strip him of his Kazakh citizenship. Shynkuat Baizhanov, Serikzhan’s lawyer, said that such actions by the city of Almaty were illegal.
Serikzhan Bilash leads Atajurt, an organization that defends ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang from concentration camps. During the boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by the Five Eyes Coalition countries, Atajurt organized protests and asked family members of those imprisoned in Xinjiang concentration camps to march in front of the Almaty embassy. Serikzhan gave daily speeches, encouraging families to protest the Chinese government’s inhumane and genocidal policy in Xinjiang.
Serikzhan told ChinaAid:
“Last month, I organized my team to travel 4,000 kilometers over a long distance, visiting more than 100 towns and villages, recording more than 100 articles about the witness policy of Xinjiang re-education camps and publishing them in Atajurt’s
media, partly translated into English and already published in the world’s leading human rights media. Six articles have been published on Bitter Winter’s website, at a time when the international community is expecting new evidence about the Xinjiang concentration camps, so the Chinese Communist Party hates our guts. The Kazakh government cannot tolerate my constant criticism of them. This Almaty court incident is an act of revenge by the Kazakh government and is planned by the Chinese Communist Party behind the scenes. Kazakhstan has become a total puppet regime. China’s policy of genocide against Kazakhs in Xinjiang was absolutely approved in advance by the dictatorial president of Kazakhstan. It was Atajurt’s effective exposure of the Chinese concentration camps in Xinjiang that led the Chinese Communist Party to take revenge on me through Kazakhstan because so far we have been working non-stop to organize a witness policy on the educational camps in Xinjiang and to expose the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party against humanity!”
Editor’s note:
ChinaAid obtained the police report to the Almaty Court. Read it here.