Case Underscores Concerns about Country’s Upcoming OSCE Chairmanship
On September 3, 2009, the second day of his trial, Evgeniy Zhovtis was found guilty of manslaughter for a fatal automobile accident and arrested in the courtroom. Zhovtis is the founding director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Read more ....
Prominent Kazakh Rights Activist Sentenced To Four Years In Jail
By Radio Free EuropeA court in Kazakhstan has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to four years in jail for manslaughter, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Yevgeny Zhovtis, the director of the International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, was driving a car on July 26 in Almaty Oblast when he struck and killed a 35-year-old man. Kazakh human rights activist Andrei Sviridov told RFE/RL that Zhovtis refused to make any last statement after the verdict was announced, saying only that the trial was a "political punishment." Read more ...
Link (Freedom House): Kazakhstani Activist Denied Right to Fair Trial
It is a shame for Kazakhstan, who violates not only in this case human rights and acts like a dictatorship government, but at the same time want's to be proud of a famous building in its capital the "Pyramid of Peace and Harmony" which is supposed to be a building intended for peaceful and productive inter-faith discussion and as a multi-faith cathedral. Is this not a big contradiction? Where are the righteous leaders and people in the world to protest against the injustice happening in Kazakhstan?
ReplyDeleteSincerely and deeply concerned.
Franz Kellner from a free country