Kazakhstan: Intervention in Communications Shutdown Case
In February 2026, the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) submitted a letter to the Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan in support of a case challenging the blocking, from approximately 5-10 January 2022, of access to telecommunications services, including the Internet, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The blocking was upheld by three levels of courts in Kazakhstan before being challenged on constitutional grounds. At issue in the case is Article 41-1(1–2) of the Law on Communications, which allows the National Security Committee to suspend the operation of communication networks and Internet access unilaterally, without a court order, in situations which are deemed to be “urgent.” CLD takes the position that, since the regular courts in Kazakhstan held that the shutdown was properly authorised under this provision, the provision itself cannot be legitimate.
The full submission is available here.
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