The Instagram and Facebook accounts of Sanzhar Bokayev’s lawyers have been blocked. The restrictions affected the pages of defense attorneys Artyom Askarov and Alma Musina; additionally, an Instagram account created in support of Sanzhar Bokayev was deleted.
At a shopping and entertainment center in Almaty, a man from Russia who was intoxicated caused a disturbance. A security guard, noticing the visitor’s strange behavior, asked him to show his identification, but the man refused and then got into a confrontation with another passerby. The Russian man claimed that Kazakhstan is a “Russian country.”