Dulat Agadil

In February 2020, a squad of plainclothes police took Agadil from his family home. The next day, the Nur-Sultan city police reported that Agadil had died in a pre-trial detention center due to suspected heart failure. After that, an investigation was initiated into his death and a forensic medical examination was ordered.

Hundreds of politicians, human rights defenders and activists expressed doubts about the reliability of this version. According to political scientist Dosym Satpayev, the death of Dulat Agadil, along with other negative events for the authorities, including the 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes, became the reason for the release of the former head of Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev from prison.

Dulat Agadil is survived by his wife, Gülnar and six children: daughter Qymbat, and sons Nurbolat, Aibolat, Janbolat, Qasymhan and Abylaihan. On 11 November 2020, Agadil's son Janbolat was stabbed to death during a mass brawl in the Koktal microdistrict of Nur-Sultan.

During his life, Agadil planned to build a house for his family, but due to his death, he could not bring this plan to life. After his death, his close friends, associates, activists and all concerned citizens of Kazakhstan from all over the world, jointly built a house for his family by providing money, information support, and directly taking part in the construction. By the end of construction, on 8 August 2020, a memorial dinner was organised, which was attended by several hundred people from all over the country. After the end of the lunch, the audience moved to Agadil's grave to read a prayer, as a result of which about a hundred participants were subjected to administrative fines, detentions and arrests on charges of the event not being coordinated with the authorities.

For the first time he became widely known, after defending mothers with many children who began to fight for their rights after the tragic death of five young children in the capital city of Nur-Sultan. In 2007, he moved to the village of Talapker in the Akmola Region where he became politically active for the first time, and was significantly involved in the establishment and development of the village. Agadil repeatedly spoke for the civil rights and freedoms of Kazakhs, including for political prisoners and for free and fair elections. He criticized the authorities for which he was subjected to multiple arrests. He fought in the opposition against the government, which also led to the resignation of President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in March 2019.

Dulat Shakiruly Agadil (Kazakh: Дулат Шәкірұлы Ағаділ, romanized: Dulat Şäkırūly Ağadıl; 16 February 1977 – 25 February 2020) was a Kazakh civil and human rights activist.

Agadil was born on 16 February 1977, in the village of Turgai. He graduated from his high school with a diploma.