The wife of journalist Aydos Sadykov blames Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the attack last month.
A Kazakh dissident has died in Ukraine, two weeks after he was shot outside his home last month.
Kyiv-based journalist Aydos Sadykov was shot in the head while sitting in a car with his wife on 18 June. Ukrainian prosecutors suspect that the “carefully planned” attack was carried out by two suspected killers from Kazakhstan.
Sadykov’s wife, Natalya Sadykova, blamed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the death of her husband, who was an outspoken critic of the Central Asian country’s leadership.
“My dear husband, father of our three children, great son of the Kazakh people. Aydos dedicated his life to Kazakhstan and suffered martyrdom at the hands of murderers,” Sadykova said in a Facebook post.
“His death is on Tokayev’s conscience,” she declared.
Who are the suspects?
According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, two Kazakh citizens, one of them a former police officer, are suspected of shooting Sadykov. Both left the country on the same day, they say, fleeing to Moldova.
Although Kazakhstan has since detained one of the suspects, named Altai Zhakanbayev, it has said it would not hand him over to Ukraine. The second suspect remains at large.
President Tokayev has instructed Kazakh law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Ukraine to locate the suspects, his spokesman said last month, according to Russian news agencies.
“Astana is ready to cooperate with Ukraine, including through Interpol,” the spokesperson said.
‘Bring them to justice’
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into the murder of Sadykov, who ran a YouTube channel that frequently criticized Kazakhstan’s former president Nursultan Nazarbayev and his successor Tokayev.
“The news of the attack on Sadykov in broad daylight in Kiev city center is deeply disturbing,” Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said last month.
“Ukrainian authorities should ensure Sydykov’s safety, identify the attacker, bring him to justice and determine who ordered the attack. Kazakhstan must show that it is committed to the rule of law during this process.”
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