{"id":54607,"date":"2023-04-25T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/apr\/25\/tory-mp-criticised-kazakhstan-funded-5k-trip-to-observe-elections-daniel-kawczynski"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:00:31","slug":"tory-mp-criticised-for-kazakhstan-funded-5k-trip-to-observe-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54607","title":{"rendered":"Tory MP criticised for Kazakhstan-funded \u00a35k trip to observe elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups raise concerns after UK trade envoy Daniel Kawczynski praised the country\u2019s \u2018functioning democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski is facing criticism after the Kazakh government funded a \u00a35,100 trip for him to observe elections and quoted him praising the country\u2019s \u201cfunctioning democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kawczynski, a trade envoy for the prime minster, Rishi Sunak, travelled to watch parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan in March amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/eur57\/6707\/2023\/en\/\">concerns<\/a> among human rights groups about the treatment of Zhanbolat Mamai, the leader of the unregistered Democratic party. Mamai was this month banned from political activism and journalism for six years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2023\/apr\/25\/tory-mp-criticised-kazakhstan-funded-5k-trip-to-observe-elections-daniel-kawczynski\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups raise concerns after UK trade envoy Daniel Kawczynski praised the country\u2019s \u2018functioning democracy\u2019The Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski is facing criticism after the Kazakh government funded a \u00a35,100 trip for him to observe electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,262,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-kazakhstan","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607\/revisions\/54608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}