Kazakhstan reappoints Human Rights Ombudsman
The Head of State decreed to reappoint Artur Lastayev as the Human Rights Ombudsman of Kazakhstan, Qazinform News Agency learnt from the Akorda press service.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed the candidature of Artur Lastayev for the post of the Human Rights Commissioner at the session of the Kazakh Senate on December 29, 2022.
Born in 1983, Artur Lastayev is a graduate of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
He started his career as an assistant prosecutor of the Bostandyk district in 2006 in Almaty. Then he worked at the head office of the Prosecutor General’s Office for five years.
Since January 2016 he was the representative of the Prosecutor’s General Office – adviser of the Permanent Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
In 2018, he was the representative of the Prosecutor’s General Office in Europe – advisor at the Kazakh Embassy in Switzerland. After that, he headed the International and Legal Cooperation Service of the Prosecutor’s General Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, the Head of State decreed to reappoint Dmitry Malakhov as Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
