Terrorist attacks prevented in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's special services prevented nine terrorist attacks in 2013-2014.
Deputy Prosecutor General Zhakip Assanov made the remark at the
plenary session in the Senate (Parliament's Lower Chamber) on
September 25, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.
A total number of 65 extremist and terrorist crimes were registered
in Kazakhstan in 2013 and 52 crimes in 2014.
The court convicted 29 people for extremist and terrorist crimes in
2014.
"For example, in April 2014, two religious radicals urged people to
go to Syria and participate in military actions against law
enforcement agencies, they were sentenced to five years in prison,"
Assanov said. "One our citizen from the city of Atyrau joined the
terrorist group in Afghanistan through social networks and then
tried to encourage others to become militants. He was imprisoned
for 8 years."
Assanov reminded that over 10 terrorist attacks have been committed
in Kazakhstan since 2011, as a result of which 21 people had been
killed. Seventeen of those people were representatives of law
enforcement agencies and government structures.
He further said that Kazakhstan recognized 15 organizations as
terrorist and 6 as extremist since 2004. "Their activities have
been stopped," he added.
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