Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan [SEP] inception
Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan
Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan (, "Qazaqstannyń Sotsıalıstik karsylyǵy"; , "Socialističeskoe Soprotivlenie Kazahstana") is a Trotskyist political organisation in Kazakhstan affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International.
History.
Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan was established by Kazakh members of the Committee for a Workers International in 2002, during a conference held in neighbouring Russia. From its inception it came under attack by authorities, with one member detained en route to the conference establishing the organisation, and others reporting being attacked
as they gathered for the conference.
Prominent members of Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan include Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, leaders of the independent Kazakh trade union 'Zhanartu', currently in exile. Along with other members of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, both have been subject to arbitrary imprisonment and attempts on their lives when within Kazakhstan.
In June 2012, Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov, leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances, after receiving a range of death threats from state-affiliated interests.