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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 19 June 2019

Kazakhstan updates tally of protest arrests to nearly 4,000

Associated Press At least nine journalists were just hanging around and
MOSCOW (AP) — Police among those arrested. taking pictures for fun.”
in Kazakhstan arrested An ally of Kazakhstan’s first Trotsenko said he spent two
nearly 4,000 people dur- and only president won the hours at a police station,
ing protests before and election with more than 70 where he was questioned
after a June 9 presidential percent of the vote. Presi- about his political views
election, and 700 were de- dent Nursultan Nazarbayev and then allowed to leave
tained for several days, the resigned in March after without explanation.
country’s interior minister holding office for more than As he photographed police
reported Tuesday. 25 years, Kassym-Jomart arresting more protesters
Protests took place in Ka- Tokayev was speaker of the next day, “one of the
zakhstan on election day the upper house of Kazakh- officers said that if I won’t
and continued for several stan’s parliament before he leave the square, he would
days over what govern- became acting president strangle me,” he said.
ment critics saw as an or- following the surprise resig- Freelance journalist Assem
chestrated handover of nation. Pyotr Trotsenko, 33, Kazakh police detain a demonstrator in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Zhapisheva, 30, said police
power in the Central Asian a reporter for the Kazakh- Wednesday, June 12, 2019, during protests against presidential officers tried to intimidate
nation. Police dispersed the language service of Radio elections. her, too, asking her at an
demonstrations with force. Free Europe, was one of Associated Press overcrowded detention
Official arrest figures put the journalists detained at media identification. Trot- his pocket. center “why I’m writing bad
the number of protesters the election day rallies in senko told a different story. “I tried to explain to them things about Kazakhstan.”
held at less than 1,000 be- the capital, Nur-Sultan, and He said officers took hold of that I am a journalist and The shows of public discon-
fore Interior Minister Erlan the city of Almaty. his arms when he was in the have a professional cam- tent related to the election
Turgumbayev gave the Police said they did not middle of the crowd and era on me,” Trotsenko told were rare events for Ka-
updated tally in comments know the nine were journal- he didn’t have the chance The Associated Press. “It zakhstan, where opposition
carried by Kazakh media. ists and insisted none had to take the press ID out of was obvious that I was not is restricted.q

More than 100 children die in
India in encephalitis outbreak

Left wing activists shout slogans as they protest against deaths
of more than 100 children due to Encephalitis in the Indian state
of Bihar, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2019.
Associated Press
By INDRAJIT SINGH Muzaffarpur district, 80 ki-
Associated Press lometers (50 miles) north of
PATNA, India (AP) — More Patna, the state capital.
than 100 children have Despite the deaths, Ku-
died in an encephalitis mar said the mortality
outbreak in India’s eastern rate among children from
state of Bihar, authorities encephalitis, which can
said Tuesday. cause swelling of the brain,
Bihar health secretary San- a burning fever and vomit-
jay Kumar said 106 children ing, had dropped to 26.5%
had died and more than from 34% a year ago.
430 others between the Young children are par-
ages of 4 and 10 were be- ticularly vulnerable to the
ing treated at hospitals in disease.q