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.
Past Friday a lawyer from Karaganda Yevgenii Tankov made a claim against completely insolent department of justice of Karaganda area, which refused to registrate a public association "Order of Whimsical absurd people".
Muslim Union of Kazakhstan (MUK) and Muslim Committee of Human rights in Central Asia (MCHRCA) had spread in Thursday a statement, in which expressed their protest in connection with cruel beating of the MUK and MCHRCA leader's son.
On Friday, Mr. Zhovtis, Kazakhstan's leading human rights defender, was locked into a prison cell after a court found him guilty of vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced to spend the next four years in jail.
Correspondent of the newspaper "Uralskaya nedelya" (Uralsk week) Lukpan Akhmediarov was sent to the prison immediately subsequent to former adviser of the regional department Alpamys Bekturganov. He was put in prison "for insulting the court".
According to the project ofgovernment resolution prepared by Agency of informatization and communication (AIC) of the RK in the near future under the Republic state enterprise on economic conduct rights of Republic of Kazakhstan Agency of informatizations and communication "Center oftechnical support and analysis in the field of telecommunication" will be created Service of reactions to computer incidents.
