On July 6th, The Washington Times ran an op-ed by Kazakh Ambassador to the U.S. Erlan Idrissov entitled "Kazakhstan unfairly criticized in human rights case: Activists can kill people with immunity". In response, Yevegni Zhovtis, the subject of Idrissov's article and an inmate in an East Kazakhstan penal colony, drafted the response below which has been submitted to The Washington Times but to date has not run.
Matteo Mecacci, senior member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on human rights, meted with Kazakh human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis, serving a four-year sentence in a prison colony in Ust-Kamenogorsk.
On March 20, 2010 in the high security institution /tight institution LA – 155/8 convict Zhandos Sagatov born in 1983 was severely beaten in the quarantine unit during reception of the convicts.
Visit to Yevgeny Zhovtis, Human Rights Defender in Kazakhstan by Matteo Mecacci, Rapporteur of the OSCE PA General Committee on Human Rights, Democracy and Humanitarian Questions.
Freedom House is dismayed with the Kazakhstani Supreme Court’s decision not to re-consider the case of prominent human rights activist Yevgeniy Zhovtis.
The International day of human rights which is celebrated on December 10th, for an attorney Vitaliyi Voronov began in Taldykorgan with the preliminary consideration of supervision complaints to the condemnation of Eugenii Zhovtis, a director of Kazakhstan bureau for human rights.
Events which were happened in the December 7th2009 in Zhanaozen city on Mangistayu area had shaken not only this small borough, but official Astana too.
In the evening of 5th December, past Saturday I had a call from one woman. By her words, in feminine colony LA-155/4 which is separated on Almatinskyi area in the Zhaugashty village, 30 convicted women had exposure bellies themselves.
