ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A news conference organized on June 7 in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, by a group of mothers who are demanding social benefits and proper housing was disrupted by other women, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
The incident occurred two days ahead of snap presidential elections in the country.
The press conference being held at Kazakhstan’s Bureau for Human Rights was stopped when a group of some 20 women barged in and started shouting slogans against single mothers and mothers with many children who had announced the event to highlight their plight on the eve of the election.
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Source: The Times of Central Asia
