18 months of house arrest. Fired from a government job. A five-year social media ban.  That’s the price blogger and civil servant Nazym Tabyldieva paid at trial for criticizing the Kazakh government in a series of social media posts. A new #TrialWatch report with Covington & Burling and expert Cathy Anite anite_anite found that she was effectively presumed guilty—convicted, then silenced.  #Freespeech should be protected, not punished.  📄 Read our analysis of Tabyldieva’s case at link in bio →