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A Kazakhstan soldier patrols a street as relatives of the arrested after anti-government protests gather near a police station in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. With about 12,000 people arrested after anti-government protests in Kazakhstan last week, friends and relatives of those held by police waited outside a jail Wednesday, hoping to learn their fate. Some even went to morgues to see if a loved one was among the scores killed in the unprecedented violence in the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)