🔴 What is the role of Chevron in #TransnationalRepression?
Open Dialogue Foundation, together with human rights experts from the #ActivistNotExtremists coalition, prepared a report on the transnational political repression of Barlyk Mendygaziyev.
The persecution of Barlyk, his relatives and associates has received extensive international attention as one example of:
🔻financial repression: abuse of anti-extremist/terrorist legislation; anti-money laundering laws (abuse of AML/CFT laws);
🔻taking family members and associates as political hostages, torturing them, including putting Kalyk #Mendygaziyev, Barlyk's brother, to death; and
🔻abuse of #INTERPOL 's international wanted list, etc.
The Mendygaziyev case is mentioned in resolutions of the European Parliament and in the US State Department's annual reports on the human rights situation in #Kazakhstan for 2021-2023 as an example of selective justice and #TransnationalRepression by the Kazakhstani authorities.
But these international documents do not pay attention on Chevron’s role as a key instrument of the above-mentioned political repression, initiated by Kazakhstani regime.
🔴 In our report we call on the US & #FATF:
🔻 Investigate and develop an effective mechanisms to counter and hold accountable Kazakhstan's regime for involvement of @Chevron in political persecution of Mendygaziyev, including financial repression for his eco-activist and human rights work;
🔻 Address and hold accountable #Kazakhstani regime for the abuse of AML/CFT laws to financialy exclude civil society, donors and opposition.
🔹 As a context: Mendygaziyev exposed numerous of environmental damages in Kazakhstan because of corruption for over decade. For instance, in March 2022 Nazar Solutions LLP, as one of the contractors of Tengizchevroil LLP, was illegally storing toxic oil waste in a massively populated area of Western Kazakhstan. That caused an explosion and fires of toxic oil waste in #Tengiz village. The largest shareholder of Tengizchevroil LLP is the US company Chevron, which holds a 50% stake. https://image.nostr.build/4d3d308fdaaf9e9f2447cd6f7438032a23ed1487260f348158601ac9a0f53d24.jpg https://video.nostr.build/368526bbd3389f65957a0ade057ba69de21c40c94ff0072484a468aba739f970.mp4
