On the 5th of January 2020, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of Saltanat Tashimova’s apartment. The perpetrator was never identified. It was not the first attack on her apartment in Bostandyk district.

Saltanat Tashimova, a woman human rights defender and environmental activist from Kazakhstan, attributes this attack as a retaliation for her activism. Together with other environmental activists, she spoke out against the construction of a ski resort in the Kokzhailau Gorge, compacted construction in the centre of Almaty and cutting down trees in the city.