Statement of Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law on the occasion of the anniversary of the legal process and the sentence under the case of Yevegiy Zhovtis
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.
The European court of human rights in the second half of November refused Amir Kabulov - a citizen of the RK and who was declared in international search - in extradition from Ukraine to Kazakhstan. Systematic using of tortures and absence of the independent judicial system in Kazakhstan were called as causes of failure.
These days financial police was interested in involvement of employees of Aktyubinsk STQR (the special troop of the quick reaction) in disappearance of 19 years old Aset Bekdairov whose remains of the body were found not far away from Aktobe.
Thereby, members of the court had encroached upon people of the Republic of Kazakhstan on receiving the information. Outraged representatives of public had written the statement to the Temirtau municipal public prosecutor's office.
In one of the Taldykorgan high schools beside young teacher of geography Aida Dekebayeva appeared some problems due to the carrying of hijab. These days a director of this school recommended the lady to change her image and not to carry kerchief in school.
