#JusticeNovikova stickers are still appearing around London

JusticeForNovikova supporters remain active around the neighbourhood of Rakhat Aliyev’s accomplices.

Our #JusticeforNovikova stickers are still appearing around London.

We get reports of sticker sightings occasionally. A supporter sent in this photo of our logo that someone had placed at the Knightsbridge underground station earlier this month.

The location is noteworthy, because Knightsbridge is the closest tube stop to Lowndes Square, home of Rakhat Aliyev’s accomplices Issam Hourani and Devincci Hourani.

The Hourani brothers owned the flat in Beirut where Anastasiya Novikova was held captive and killed in 2004.

The first Justice for Novikova protest occurred at Lowndes Square last June, on the 10th anniversary of Anastasiya’s death.

Our stickers have been appearing around the world: In Austria, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and as far away as California USA.

Designs for #JusticeforNovikova stickers, posters, and masks are available for anyone to download, for free, by clicking here or clicking the Downloads tab above.

UPDATE, NOVEMBER 3: More stickers are sighted in London’s Belgravia neighborhood and elsewhere.

The sticker is visible on the lamp post in the middle of the photo.
Others like it were seen around Lowndes Square on the morning of November 1.

This photo was posted on our Facebook page on November 1, outside a restaurant near Lowndes Square.

Thanks to the friend who sent it in.

The image is pulled from our Facebook page.

Our Facebook page has 5000 likes

More than 5,000 people now ‘like’ our Facebook page.

This week, the Justice for Novikova Facebook page hit 5,000 likes – after surpassing Rakhat Aliyev’s own established Facebook page in terms of ‘likes’ last month.

Aliyev claims to be a political ‘dissident’ and human rights victim, but he shows no support from Kazakhstan’s political opposition, and none from the international human rights community.

Financial giant Forbes mentions our campaign

One of the world’s most influential financial and business news sources has cited the Justice for Novikova campaign.

Forbes, published in New York, ran a piece September 3 about forgeries from former Soviet intelligence services. The analytical article featured Rakhat Aliyevand his reported manufacturing of forgeries to wage litigation campaigns in Europe and the United States, and to attack his critics.

Aliyev was trained by the Soviet KGB and was a major general in Kazakhstan’s successor agency, known as KNB.

Those critics whom Aliyev labels “spies” for Kazakhstan’s secret services range from former US president Bill Clinton and former CIA director James Woolsey, to former British prime minister Tony Blair and a range of other European leaders – as well as the Justice for Novikova protesters who held a vigil during Aliyev’s Vienna Criminal Court hearing in July.

According to the Forbes piece,

“Other Kazakh KGB ‘spies,’ according to Aliyev’s conspiracy theory, include former Austrian chancellor Heinz Fischer, former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, and former Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski. He also accuses former president Bill Clinton, former CIA director James Woolsey and other former U.S. officials of conspiring against him. Aliyev claims they are all part of a Kazakhstan KGB plot called ‘Superkhan.’

“Indeed, everyone seems to be a member of this sinister plot. In July, protesters picketed the Vienna Criminal Court demanding justice for the unsolved violent death of Aliyev’s mistress, Anastasiya Novikova. The former TV anchor was thrown from a nine-story window and impaled on a wrought iron fence of the apartment building of Aliyev’s in-laws. Aliyev responded by calling the protestors Kazakhstan intelligence agents, according to his Facebook page.”

The article also mentions Aliyev’s partners, Issam Hourani and Devincci Hourani (also spelled Khorani), although it does not connect them to the Novikova case.

According to the article,

“Working through his in-laws – Issam Hourani and his brother (both of whom are cousins of Mahmud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority) – Aliyev introduced what attorneys call ‘forgery-based litigation’ as plaintiffs in London’s High Court, World Bank tribunals in Paris, and a U.S. District Court in Washington, DC. Judges in each case discovered the forgeries and the documents were withdrawn.”

A link to the Forbes article is here.

CNN’s iReport runs our videos of Vienna vigil

CNN’s iReport has run our videos of the July 21 Vienna vigil outside the courthouse where Rakhat Aliyev pled unsuccessfully before an Austrian judge for his freedom.

The videos, produced by #JusticeForNovikova activists,appear on YouTube in addition to the citizen journalism website of CNN.

In one of of our CNN iReport videos, titled “Vienna protesters want Rakhat Aliyev tried for Novikova murder,” protesters explain their concerns that Aliyev may not face justice in Austria because of the fact that Austria’s new Minister of Justice, Wolfgang Brandstetter, was on Aliyev’s payroll to keep the former Kazakhstan KGB general out of prison.

Observers of the protesters agreed that evidence is compelling that Rakhat Aliyev was behind the 2004 murder of Anastasiya Novikova, and that it was incumbent on Austrian authorities to follow every piece of information.

Some of the observers in the video said that “justice can be bought” in Europe, and raised the issue of Brandstetter and Aliyev’s KGB networks as making #JusticeForNovikova anything but a sure thing.

The other of our CNN iReport videos is of our first, quick montage of footage from the protest in front of the Vienna Criminal Court.

VIDEO: Vienna protest against Rakhat Aliyev

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

Protesters show up at Rakhat Aliyev court hearing in Vienna

Vigil at Rakhat Aliyev court hearing in Vienna

Protesters assemble outside the Vienna Criminal Court during Rakhat Aliyev’s July 21 hearing, calling for #JusticeForNovikova.

A group of protesters is holding a vigil in front of the Vienna court house where Rakhat Aliyev is to attend a hearing today to plead for his freedom.

The protesters are wearing #JusticeForNovikova shirts. They tweeted the accompanying photo.

At the time of this posting, the international group is standing in front of the Vienna Criminal Court (Landesgericht für Strafsachen Wien) on Landesgerichtsstraße, the broad boulevard in the Austrian capital.

Scheduled for today, July 21, the Rakhat Aliyev court hearing is to consider the accused murderer’s plea to be set free and have the murder charges dismissed, or whether to put him on trial in Austria.

Aliyev is being held in the neighboring jail until Austrian authorities decide whether or not to prosecute him on two counts of murder and other charges, for crimes allegedly committed in Kazakhstan.

The #JusticeForNovikova contingent is there to urge Austrian authorities to investigate evidence pointing to Aliyev’s role in Anastasiya’s murder in 2004.

To respect local laws and norms about protests, the #JusticeForNovikova activists did not plan an actual demonstration, but are standing silently, by themselves, reminiscent of the “standing man” passive protest in Turkey.

They did, however, display posters for photographers.

Although not faced in Austria with the police brutality that demonstrators faced in Turkey, the purpose behind the quiet protest, #JusticeForNovikova activists say, is to create a mere presence without violating local laws.

#RakhatAliyev #StandingMan #JusticeNovikova #JusticeForNovikova

International support for #JusticeForNovikova

From Europe to California, more signs of support

#JusticeForNovikova stickers have been seen in Vienna, Austria, where Rakhat Aliyev is awaiting trial for murder.

More and more signs show that the #JusticeForNovikova campaign is gaining support from around the world.

This website is just over a month old, and for the first four days of this week we’ve had more than 1,800 visitors who viewed our pages more than 5,500 times.

Nearly 3,000 people ‘like’ our Justice for Novikova Facebook page.

Our YouTube channel has had almost 8,000 views – with each ‘view’ meaning someone watched at least 30 seconds of our videos – representing 8,630 minutes of video.

A #JusticeForNovikova sticker on California’s Interstate 5, near San Diego. The reflection washes out the picture of the sticker, so check the dark picture, taken without the flash, to see the logo.

First there were the protests in London on the 10th anniversary of Anastasiya Novikova’s murder. People viewed the two protest videos more than 2,900 times on our YouTube channel alone, with hundreds more views on other websites.

From Europe to California

And then the stickers started appearing. First at exclusive Lowndes Square in London. Then in California. Then in the Netherlands, directed at Rakhat Aliyev‘s longtime exile of Malta. Then in Lithuania. Most recently, stickers have appeared in Vienna, Austria, where Aliyev is in prison awaiting trial on murder charges.

What’s next?

For those of you who would like to start your own campaign, we’ve provided a page for you to download PDF images to print your own signs, banners, T-shirts, masks – and of course, stickers.

Send us pictures or videos of your events or other signs of support. Find us at anastasiya@justicefornovikova.com. Or send them directly to our Facebook page – either privately as a message (we’ll protect your anonymity), or post them right on our timeline.

#RakhatAliyev #JusticeForNovikova #JusticeNovikova

AUSTRIA – Solidarity in historic Vienna (lamp post at left), July 19.

AUSTRIA – #JusticeForNovikova stickers are seen
on the streets of the Austrian capital. See close-up for detail.

NETHERLANDS: Another sticker at the Air Malta gate at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.

LITHUANIA: A sticker appears in the Old Town of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.

CALIFORNIA, USA: Without the flash, you can make out the design 

of the #JusticeForNovikova sticker on Interstate 5 in southern California.

NETHERLANDS: A #JusticeForNovikova sticker is seen on the glass window of the gate overlooking Air Malta’s flight to what had been Rakhat Aliyev’s place of exile. July 2014. The Air Malta jet’s red tail, with the distinctive Maltese Cross, appears in the background.