Naturalized Kazakhs From Afghanistan Rendered Stateless After Astana Revokes Citizenships
By RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service November 15, 2025 Aynuddin Muradi has been a citizen of Kazakhstan for years, but he now faces deportation to his country of birth, Afghanistan. Kazakh authorities in May stripped the 27-year-old of his citizenship on the grounds that he is not ethnic Kazakh, a claim he denies. Muradi, who is appealing the