The unsanctioned meeting took place peacefully on the fringes of Republic Square. Police did not intervene.
But the All-National Social Democratic Party (OSDP) said in a statement after the meeting that several party members, including co-leader Zharmakhan Tuyakbay, were taken to a police station.
Nazarbaev’s Nur Otan party won almost 81 percent of the vote in the January 15 polls, which international observers said failed to meet democratic standards.
The election controversy came just one month after 16 people were killed in clashes between striking oil workers and police in the Caspian Sea city of Zhanaozen.
It was Kazakhstan’s worst bloodshed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Compiled from agency reports
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