On 3 September, the registration of LBQ women’s organisation Feminita has been denied again by an appeal court in Kazakhstan. “It feels like they are constantly searching for grounds to stop our work,” Zhanar Sekerbaeva, co-founder of Feminita, said to Human Rights Watch. Feminita members have experienced discriminatory treatment by the authorities before. In 2019, the authorities denied Feminita permission to organise a march for International Women’s Day multiple times. In 2018, Sekerbaeva was detained, charged with “minor hooliganism,” and fined $30 because she organised a photo shoot that she said was intended to destigmatize menstruation.
Read more about the arbitrary and discriminatory decision of the court.