Kazakhstan - February 17th, 2022

 “Burned with an iron”: relatives denounce that the detainees were tortured after the massive protests in Kazakhstan

 Complaint by relatives of political prisoners in the city of Taldyqorghan, in the southeastern region of Almaty.  They said that their loved ones had been brutally beaten and that the security forces had burned them with hot irons, put needles under their fingernails and threatened them with weapons.  Some of the detainees are minors.