“I'm not the one who stabbed Sherzat!” Defendants in the high-profile murder of a teenager in Talgar are on trial in Kazakhstan

In Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan, the high-profile case of the murder of 16-year-old teenager Sherzat Polat (Bolat), which took place in Talgar in October 2024, has begun. A group of young people who staged a fatal mass brawl were attributed to the local criminal group Khutorskiye, but the police and authorities denied the existence of such an organized criminal group in the region. All those accused of murdering the teenager deny or partially admit t…