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A car, which was burned aft clashes, is seen connected a thoroughfare successful Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Kazakhstan's president authorized information forces connected Friday to sprout to termination those participating successful unrest, opening the doorway for a melodramatic escalation successful a crackdown connected anti-government protests that person turned violent. The Central Asian federation this week experienced its worst thoroughfare protests since gaining independency from the Soviet Union 3 decades ago, and dozens person been killed successful the tumult. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

MOSCOW – The erstwhile caput of Kazakhstan’s counterintelligence and anti-terror bureau has been arrested connected charges of attempted authorities overthrow successful the aftermath of convulsive protests that the president has blamed connected foreign-backed terrorists.

The apprehension of Karim Masimov was announced Saturday by the National Security Committee, which Kasimov headed until helium was removed this week by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Authorities accidental information forces killed 26 demonstrators successful this week’s unrest and that 18 law-enforcement officers died. More than 4,400 radical person been arrested, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.

The protests successful the Central Asian federation were the astir wide since Kazakhstan’s independency from the Soviet Union successful 1991.

The unrest began successful the country’s acold westbound arsenic protests against a crisp emergence successful prices for liquefied petroleum state that is wide utilized arsenic conveyance fuel, and dispersed to the country’s largest city, Almaty, wherever demonstrators seized and burned authorities buildings.

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