The Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan has developed a new Plan for further action in the field of human rights and the rule of law. The draft Plan has been posted for public comment on the open regulations portal. As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the new Plan was developed in accordance […]
Another scandal occurred in the penitentiary system of Kazakhstan. In the pre-trial detention center of the city of Uralsk (West Kazakhstan region), prisoner Vitaly Turenkov ripped open his stomach after appealing to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Turenkov recorded his appeal and self-infliction of injury on video. “Dear President, government and human rights organizations! […]
The Center for Investigation of the January events in Kazakhstan is collecting documents and evidence from detainees and relatives who were killed during the January rallies. Members of the Center, headed by Zhasaral Kuanyshalin, travel to the cities where the riots took place and meet with eyewitnesses of those events and victims. According to Kuanyshalin, […]
Details of the torture of Zhasulan Amangeldinov, who was detained after the January riots in Almaty, became known. As ACCA has already reported, Sayat Adilbekuly, who received a gunshot wound during the riots and was taken by the special services barefoot and undressed from the hospital and thrown into pre-trial detention center LA-155/18, spoke about […]
On February 13, a rally dedicated to 40 days of the January tragedy was held in Almaty. Several hundred mourners gathered in the central square of the city; according to various estimates, from 300 to 600 people. Some demanded that those responsible for torturing fellow citizens detained during the riots be punished. Others stated that […]
Torture is used in prisons of Kazakhstan. Despite numerous statements by the authorities that this information is not true and that there are no torture cells in prisons and pre-trial detention centers, the public is receiving more and more evidence to the contrary. So the well-known TV presenter Dinara Egeubayeva said that two minors are […]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan stated that the rumors about the existence of a torture facility in the pre-trial detention center in Almaty are not true. The Ministry of Internal Affairs was prompted to make such a statement by information disseminated on social networks that there is a special room in the basement […]
Over the nine months of this year, the fund has paid compensation for treatment, rehabilitation, burial and other urgent purposes to victims of criminal offenses, including minors who have been sexually abused, victims of human trafficking, and torture. Sanzhar Adilov, head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, announced this at a […]
In Kazakhstan prisons, 96.7% of prisoners and 97% of personnel received the coronavirus vaccine. Such information was given at a briefing in Nur-Sultan by Zhanar Shaydullina, head of the department of medical support for convicts of the Committee of the Penitentiary System (CPS). According to the speaker, the country’s correctional facilities were able to survive […]
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