Kazakhstan, 2022 — auto-coup

This dataset entry codes the event as an 'auto-coup' by the sitting president consolidating power, corresponding to the January 2022 Kazakh unrest crisis. Sources consulted (Caspian News, NPR) describe it primarily as a mass-protest/political-crisis event with Tokayev's power consolidation (removing Nazarbayev from the Security Council, requesting CSTO troops, declaring emergency rule) as the coup-relevant component; they do not use the term 'coup' or 'auto-coup' explicitly, which is the Cline Center's own classification/interpretation, not a description found in the general press coverage reviewed. | Verification method: I fetched the Caspian News source_url directly and confirmed all three of its cited facts (Nazarbayev's removal from the Security Council chairmanship and Tokayev's quote, the LPG price/protest-slogan fact, and the nationwide state-of-emergency/cabinet-resignation fact) — all quotes are fairly represented, though fact 3's "quote" is actually a researcher-assembled paraphrase stitched from three separate sentences in the article (not marked with ellipses the way facts 1/2 are), a minor quote-fidelity issue that does not affect factual accuracy since the underlying claims (nationwide spread, capital included, cabinet resignation) all check out against the article text I pulled. For the three NPR-sourced facts, www.npr.org is blocked by this sandbox's egress policy (confirmed via the agent-proxy status endpoint: "gateway answered 403 to CONNECT... host: www.npr.org") — I could not directly fetch the cited URL, and mirrors (mprnews.org, northcountrypublicradio.org) were also blocked or returned only page metadata with no article body. I instead corroborated each NPR-sourced fact against independent AP-wire republications and other outlets covering the same day's events: (1) Mamin/cabinet resignation — confirmed verbatim-equivalent in Al Jazeera ("he had accepted the resignation of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Askar Mamin") and RFE/RL; (2) CSTO intervention request/deployment and "two-week" state of emergency (Jan 5–19 matches exactly) — confirmed via RFE/RL (Armenian PM quote on CSTO deployment "in response to an appeal from Kazakh President... Toqaev") and ABC News/AP wire ("declared a two-week state of emergency," CSTO "would send peacekeeper troops"); the precise wording "band of international terrorists" could not be independently verified verbatim (AP wire paraphrases it as "terrorist bands" that had "received help from unspecified other countries"), so this specific phrasing carries residual uncertainty though the substance (Tokayev framing unrest as foreign-backed terrorism) is well-corroborated; (3) casualty figures — strongly confirmed verbatim by ABC News/AP wire: "at least a dozen police officers died," "353... [police] injured," "Dozens of protesters were killed." Given this convergent corroboration from multiple independent, credible outlets reporting the same underlying wire content, I did not downgrade these facts, but flag that I could not confirm the literal NPR page content directly due to the network block. checked=3 reflects only the facts whose exact cited source_url I was able to fetch and inspect directly (the three Caspian News facts); the three NPR facts were verified through convergent alternate sourcing rather than direct URL fetch. No fabrication, dead links, or unsupported claims were found in the summary or target_leader; both are fully traceable to the sourced facts.