Kazakh media with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan declared the detention in the republic to four thousand terrorists. The message appeared including in the Telegram channel “Sputnik near abroad.”
The largest number of detentions, according to the department, occurred in Almaty. Also in the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that during the sweeping, more than 100 persons were stopped.
Detained threatens life imprisonment.
Protests in Kazakhstan began on Sunday, January 2, due to the increase in gas prices for cars. The cost of the liter rose from 60 to 120 tenge (from 10 to 20 rubles). Soon economic requirements were replaced by political. Protesters demanded the resignation of the government, holding new elections, as well as consideration of the issue of the lustration of people from the “clan” of the former President of Nursultan Nazarbayev. In the evening of January 4, rallies have grown into bulk riots. In Alma-Ata, shops, banks were plundered, captured by the airport building, police plots, government agencies and infrastructure facilities. In this regard, a red level of terrorist danger was introduced in the republic.