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0808 8010 503 📌 Key documented facts about Kazakhstan (✅✅✅-verified only)
«30 December 2025: President Tokayev signed the propaganda law.
Fine: 144,500 tenge. Up to 10 days administrative detention.
In force from early 2026.»
(Eurasianet, January 2026; HRW November 2025; Amnesty November 2025)
«12 April 2024, Astana: SOBR raid on a rented cottage.
Approximately 70 men taken to police station.
Pretext: 'tip-off about prohibited substances'.»
(RFE/RL Exclusive Kazakhstan, April 2024; ILGA-Europe statement, April 2024)
«21–22 November 2025, Astana: Arja Tursynkhan was arrested on 21 November after disrupting an NGO roundtable, then in custody was placed in a cell where he was threatened with rape, beaten, and had his glasses broken. On 22 November the same activist confronted Zhanar Sekerbayeva and Temirlan Baimash at a café — both briefly detained and released without charge. A separate raid on an LGBT bar the same evening detained unnamed staff.»
(76 Crimes, February 2026; FIDH/OMCT, November 2025)
«ECOM 2024: 78% of registered hate crimes target LGBT people;
27% of LGBT respondents physically assaulted; three-quarters
do not report to police.»
(ECOM National Report Kazakhstan, March 2025)
Sources: ECOM National Report Kazakhstan (March 2025) · ILGA-Europe Annual Review 2025 · HRW (November 2025, April 2026) · Eurasianet (January 2026) · FIDH/OMCT (November 2025) · 76 Crimes (February 2026) · UN AL KAZ 3/2024
⚠️ This page is a library of public documents, not immigration advice. What to use in your case is decided by an IAA/SRA/BSB-regulated lawyer.
📚 Document catalogue
ECOM (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) · March 2025 · PDF
Quantitative baseline: 78% of recorded hate crimes target LGBT people; 27% of LGBT respondents physically assaulted; three out of four do not report to police. The main quantitative source on Kazakhstan.
ILGA-Europe · February 2025 · PDF
80+ documented hate-motivated incidents over the period January–December 2024. «Fake date» entrapment pattern; case: lesbian falsely diagnosed with schizophrenia for conversion «therapy». Also includes ECOM 78% data.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights · 29 August 2024 · PDF
5 UN mandate-holders condemned the petition against LGBT rights, raids, and «confessions about sexual orientation» during interrogations. Official UN communication addressed to the Government of Kazakhstan.
Human Rights Watch · April 2026 · Web report
Documents the use of homophobia in criminal prosecutions, including the cases of Zhanar Sekerbaeva (convicted of «assault» after being attacked at a café) and Amir Shaikezhanov (5 years for rape, HIV status disclosed by the court, solitary confinement). Analysis of the legal system and law enforcement practices towards LGBT people in Kazakhstan.
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights · November 2025 · Press release
«The proposed law risks institutionalising discrimination against LGBTIQ+ persons in Kazakhstan.» Official UN position before the law was signed by the President.
FIDH / OMCT / KIBHR / TGEU · November 2025 · Joint statement
Joint statement of four organisations on physical attacks and harassment of LGBT rights defenders in Kazakhstan. Documents the detention of Arzha Tursynkhan on 21 November 2025 (after disrupting an NGO roundtable) and the detention of Zhanar Sekerbaeva and Temirlan Baimash on 22 November at a café, as well as a separate raid on an LGBT bar the same evening.
Eurasianet · January 2026 · Web article
Report on President Tokayev signing the law on 30 December 2025. Details of sanctions: fine of 144,500 tenge (approx. $280), up to 10 days administrative detention. Context: comparison with Russian anti-propaganda legislation.
76 Crimes · February 2026 · Web report
Detailed account of the events of 21–22 November 2025 in Astana: the arrest of Arzha Tursynkhan on 21 November after disrupting an NGO roundtable and physical violence against him in custody, the detention of Sekerbaeva and Baimash at a café on 22 November, and a separate raid on an LGBT bar with the detention of unnamed staff.
📖 Context
«LGBT propaganda» law of 30 December 2025
On 30 December 2025, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law banning «propaganda of LGBT». The law provides for a fine of 144,500 tenge (approx. $280) and up to 10 days administrative detention for «propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations».
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and OHCHR condemned the law before it was signed. OHCHR described it as «institutionalising discrimination». The law came into force in early 2026.
Police raids in Astana: April 2024 and November 2025
On 12 April 2024, SOBR officers raided a rented cottage in Astana. Approximately 70 men were taken to a police station under the pretext of «a tip-off about prohibited substances».
On 21 November 2025, Arzha Tursynkhan was detained after disrupting an NGO roundtable and following a complaint filed against him; in custody he was threatened with rape, beaten and had his glasses broken. On 22 November the same activist confronted Zhanar Sekerbaeva and Temirlan Baimash at a café in Astana — both were briefly detained and released without charge. A separate raid on an LGBT bar took place the same evening, in which unnamed staff of the venue were detained.
Both incidents are documented by multiple independent sources.
⚠️ Important: This catalogue contains public documents for general information. It is not immigration advice. What applies to your case is decided by an IAA/SRA/BSB-regulated lawyer.
