SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan — A woman activist is facing a long jail term after livestreaming the January anti-government protests in Kazakhstan on Facebook.
Karima Haidarbekova, 40, says she joined the demonstrations in her home city of Shymkent in Kazakhstan’s south on January 4 to ‘let the authorities know’ about the plight of ordinary people.
She livestreamed the rallies and speeches in the city’s central squ