Detainee in Alma-Ata announced flight from Kyrgyzstan and participation in a rally for $ 200
Photo: Timur Batyrshin / RIA Novosti
One of the detainees in Kazakhstan admitted to participating in the protests for money. He flew to Alma-Ata from Kyrgyzstan on January 2, the Khabar 24 TV channel reports.
According to the man, strangers contacted him and offered to join the protest. As a reward, they promised 90 thousand tenge, more than 200 US dollars. “Since I am unemployed in Kyrgyzstan, I agreed,” he explained.
The detainee said that they had bought an air ticket for him, and on January 2 he arrived in Alma-Ata. In the city he was taken to an apartment where there were about ten citizens of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Earlier it became known that about 300 armed people were detained in Kazakhstan at the border. They tried to leave the country by road and on foot.
On January 2, mass protests began in large cities of Kazakhstan due to the rise in prices for liquefied gas. They later escalated into riots. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev introduced state regulation of prices for fuel and food, but the citizens of the republic put forward political conditions and continued to oppose the government. Tokayev turned to the use of force to resolve the protests.
