'Parents Union' Dirupts Another Feminita Gathering

"Kazakhstan Parents Union" members have disrupted a gathering of the Feminita organization for the second consecutive day, Orda reports.

According to Feminita founders Zhanar Sekerbaeva and Gulzada Serzhan, group members gathered in an Almaty hotel to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

Anti-gender activists broke into the door, they completely broke the screen. We had to put a chair, a sofa under it. Some kind of arbitrary action is going on. Breaking into someone else's property, Zhanar Sekerbaeva said on her Instagram page. 

Images posted on the Feminita Instagram account show its members holding their ground while shouts and threats can be heard from the other side of the plastic screen.

As Feminita participants reported, activists from the Kazakhstan Union of Parents also used physical force against the manager of the hotel where the event was held.

According to Feminita activists, police have refused to take Bagila Baltabayeva's fingerprints and claim that the organization damaged the door.

We were attacked again at our event. We locked the doors, but Bagila and her allies are trying to break them down. They turned on music very loudly, are shouting obscenities, and damaging the door, Feminita wrote on their Instagram account.

Yesterday, Bagila Baltabayeva and other Union activists disrupted Feminita's first training session in their "Human Rights School" series.

Zhanar Sekerbayeva and Gulzada Serzhan were taken to the police station for questioning.

Orda's editorial team has sent an inquiry to the Almaty Police Department regarding the incidents.

Original Author: Kumysay Sarbasova