Article 2. This Law applies to all persons, without exception, who were directly subjected to political repression in the territory of the former USSR and are currently citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Law on the Rehabilitation of Victims of Mass Political Repression of the Republic of Kazakhstan

      Along with the persons specified in the first part of this article, victims of political repression are recognized as persons who permanently resided before the repression was applied to them in the territory that now constitutes the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the following cases::  

      a) the use of repression by Soviet courts and other bodies outside the former USSR;  

      b) convictions by military tribunals of the active army during the Second World War (civilians and military personnel);  

      c) the use of repression after conscription for military service outside Kazakhstan;  

      d) the use of repression by decisions of the central allied bodies: the Supreme Court of the USSR and its judicial boards, the board of the OGPU of the USSR, the special meeting of the NKVD-MGB-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, the Commission of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR and the NKVD of the USSR on investigative cases and others  

      organs;  

      e) the use of repression for participation in the events of December 17-18, 1986 in Kazakhstan, with the exception of persons convicted of premeditated murder and assault on the life of a police officer, a national vigilante in these events, in respect of which the current procedure for reviewing criminal cases remains.  

      Victims of political repression are also recognized as persons who have been forcibly illegally relocated to and from Kazakhstan on the basis of acts of the supreme state authorities of the USSR.  

     Victims of political repression in this Law are recognized as children of victims of political repression who were with their parents or their surrogates in places of imprisonment, exile, exile or special settlement, as well as children of victims of political repression who were under the age of eighteen at the time of the repression and as a result of its application were left without parental care or one of the them.

     The footnote. Article 2 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 22.07.1997 No. 169; dated 30.11.2000 No. 108; dated 22.05.2007 No. 255 (effective from the date of its official publication); dated 02.07.2018 No. 165-VI (effective after ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 14, 1993.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan is adopting this Law, determined to restore justice to people who have been subjected to mass political repression, with the aim of rehabilitating all victims of these repressions, and ensuring the maximum possible compensation for the moral and material damage they have suffered.  

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