NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will drop a requirement for public protests to be approved by authorities, make it easier to form political parties, and reduce punishments for hate speech and libel, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday.
The reform package would ease some of the most widely criticised restrictions on political freedoms in a country which has no real opposition parties in parliament and where government critics have often faced criminal charges.
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