Artur Lastayev was appointed Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Today, on the proposal of the Head of State Artur Lastayev was elected by the Senate of the Parliament to the post of Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Lastayev Artur Ermekovich was born in 1983.

Graduate of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a degree in international law.

He began his career in 2006 as an assistant of prosecutor of the Bostandyk district of the Prosecutor's Office of Almaty.

Then he worked for more than five years in the Prosecutor General's Office as head of the Department for Supervision of Legality in the Socio-economic Sphere.

Since January 2016 he was a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office – adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.

Since July 2018 he was representative of the Prosecutor General's Office in Europe – an adviser to the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Switzerland.

Before his appointment, A.Lastayev he was Head of International Legal Cooperation Service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Azimova Elvira Abilkhasimovna was appointed Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan from January 1, 2023.

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