# January protests shutdown

**Country:** 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (KZ)
**Date:** 2022-01-04
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected censorship pattern in Kazakhstan. January protests shutdown. Anomaly rate: 46.2%

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 308
- Anomaly Rate: 52.9%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): January protests shutdown
  - Observed: 2022-01-13
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KZ&since=2022-01-13&until=2022-01-14)
- **OONI** (measurement): January protests shutdown
  - Observed: 2022-01-11
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KZ&since=2022-01-11&until=2022-01-12)
- **OONI** (measurement): Web connectivity anomalies detected. 100 measurements with 50.0% anomaly rate.
  - Observed: 2022-01-05
  - Confidence: 70%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?since=2022-01-05&until=2022-01-06&probe_cc=KZ&test_name=web_connectivity&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): January protests shutdown
  - Observed: 2022-01-04
  - Confidence: 71%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KZ&since=2022-01-04&until=2022-01-05)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). January protests shutdown [KZ-2022-0001]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/KZ-2022-0001

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: KZ-2022-0001*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/KZ-2022-0001*