New YouTube video of Vienna protest against Rakhat Aliyev
A video of the Vienna protest at Rakhat Aliyev’s criminal hearing July 21 is now on YouTube.
The video shows the group of young people from Austria and other European countries who gathered for a quiet, 4-hour vigil across from the Vienna Criminal Court.
“I am the same age” as Anastasiya Novikova “when she was killed ten years ago,” a 23 year-old Viennese demonstrator says in the video.
“I came here from Ireland just to see that justice is done,” another 23 year-old woman says at the protest.
“Aliyev must be brought to justice,” a young man in a #JusticeForNovikova shirt adds.
The video has a gritty feel of an amateur production, and it gets the point across well: Rakhat Aliyev is in the prison across the street, attending a court hearing across the street, and Austria must ensure that he is held accountable for Anastasiya Novikova’s fate.
Anastasiya was the young mother of Aliyev’s daughter who was born in 2003. Then Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Austria, Aliyev took unusual lengths to cover up his affair, forcing Anastasiya to marry his cousin, an embassy driver, and move to Beirut, where Anastasiya lived as a captive in an apartment owned by two Aliyev associates. She was murdered by being thrown off the balcony of that apartment on June 19, 2004.
British protesters observed the 10th anniversary of Anastasiya’s death at Lowndes Square in London on June 19 – a protest that the Austria-based activists saw on YouTube.
#RakhatAliyev #JusticeForNovikova #JusticeNovikova video of Vienna protest
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