On 18 November 2025, the Scientific and Educational Center for Criminal Law Disciplines of the Academy of Justice under the Judicial Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a thematic dialogue platform “Ashyq Alan” on the topic “Judicial Protection of Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Criminal Justice” (moderated by the Director of the Criminal Law Academic and Training Center, Candidate of Legal Sciences Sembekova B.R.)

The dialoge brought together legal professionals representing various areas of legal practice, including: Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, M.Zh. Omarbekov; Professor Arstan Nokeshevich Akhpanov; Deputy Head of the Investigate Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Bauyrzhan Nursultanovich Abenov; Members of the High Judicial Council, Saltanat Serikzhanovna Zhunuspekova and Zhanat Anuarovna Ospanova; Attorney of the Almaty City Bar Association, Salimzhan Almuratovich Mussin; Professors of the Criminal Law Academic and Training Center, Ardak Alimkhanovna Biebayeva and Daniya Ganieyevna Kisikova.

Representatives of higher education institutions of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation also took part in the discussion, including: Senior Researcher at the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Gulmira Galymovna Nubanova; Head of the Department of Law at Esil University, Askar Kadyrovich Kaliyev; Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of Tyumen State University, Viktor Ivanovich Morozov; as well as master’s students of the Academy of Justice.

The Acting Rector of the Academy of Justice, Kanat Kalkamanovich Mussin, delivered welcoming remarks.

The work of the thematic dialogue of lawyers “Ashyq Alan” was conducted at a high level, addressing problematic issues of law enforcement in the judicial system and developing proposals and recommendations aimed at improving the norms of criminal and criminal-procedure legislation.