Kazakh dissident dies following Kyiv shooting
Al Jazeera
Wife of journalist Aydos Sadykov blames Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for attack last month.
A Kazakh dissident has died in Ukraine, two weeks after being shot outside his home last month.
Kyiv-based journalist Aydos Sadykov was shot in the head while seated in a car with his wife on June 18. Ukrainian prosecutors suspect that the “carefully planned” attack was carried out by a pair of suspected assassins from Kazakhstan.
Sadykov’s wife, Natalya Sadykova, blamed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the death of her husband, who was an outspoken critic of the Central Asian country’s leadership.
“My beloved husband, father of our three children, great son of the Kazakh people. Aydos dedicated his life to Kazakhstan and suffered martyrdom at the hands of killers,” Sadykova said in a Facebook post.
“His death is on Tokayev’s conscience,” she declared.
