A citizen of the Republic of Poland was faced with a dubious criminal prosecution in Ukraine and has spent the last 4 years in pre-trial incarceration without having been sentenced by a court.
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Topic: Prisoners' rights
Kazakhstan: End punitive prison conditions for imprisoned journalist Vladimir Kozlov
PEN International and the Open Dialogue Foundation deplore the current situation of Vladimir Kozlov, a Kazakh journalist, human rights defender and a leader of Alga!, a political opposition party, who is currently serving a seven-and-half-year prison sentence for ‘inciting social discord’.
The case of Aleksander Orlow
For more than 15 years, the illegal prosecution of a 60-year-old citizen of Poland, a member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine, human rights activist and father of three, including two minors, Aleksander Orlow, has been ongoing in Ukraine.
A fourth birthday in prison: Authorities create unbearable conditions of detention for Kozlov
On 10 August, 2015, the Kazakh opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov celebrated his 55th birthday behind bars. Having been placed in strict conditions of detention, he is subjected to ill-treatment and faces the risk of being transferred to a different, more severe penal colony.
“Kazakhstan, the state of ‘injustice'”, Italian on-line magazine, L’Opinione, on the use of torture in Kazakhstan
In his latest piece for L’Opinione, Italian on-line magazine on civil freedoms and rights, Domenico Letizia calls Kazakhstan the state of “injustice” and analyses the problem of the continuous use of various repressive methods.
Following his release from solitary confinement, Vladimir Kozlov has been transferred to strict regime conditions for six months
The Kazakh authorities misinform the international community in order to avoid criticism for their persecution of political prisoner V. Kozlov.
K. Savchenko’s interview about harassment of civil society in Kazakhstan
In the end of June 2015, the Open Dialogue Foundation published a report ’Harassment of civil society in Kazakhstan’. The Foundation’s analyst, Katerina Savchenko, provided answers to some clarifying questions in an interview with a journalist of the Radio Azattyq, Kazis Toguzbayev.
Political prisoner Vladimir Kozlov placed in solitary confinement and has gone on hunger strike
A Kazakhstani political prisoner is being subjected to ill treatment. Vladimir Kozlov has been systematically denied a transfer to milder conditions of detention and release on parole.
Background note on the international advocacy activities of the Open Dialogue Foundation coordinated by the Brussels office in 2013 – 2015
The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) is a non-governmental, non-partisan organization established in Poland, in 2009. The statutory objectives of the Foundation include promotion, support and protection of human rights, democracy and rule of law in the post-Soviet area.
Reply from the Kazakh authorities to the letter from Święcicki on the conditions in which A. Atabek and V. Kuramshin are detained
The Prison Service Committee at the Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs has replied to the letter from Marcin Święcicki, MP, concerning the Kazakh dissidents Vadim Kuramshin and Aron Atabek. In their reply, the Kazakh authorities provide an unrealistic vision of idyllic conditions in Kazakh prisons.
Kazakhstan: stage-managed elections against the backdrop of the authorities’ crackdown on dissent
Early presidential elections resemble a staged play under the facade of democracy. Uncompetitive elections are a way for Nazarbayev to consolidate autocratic power.
Polish parliamentarians appeal in the case of V. Kozlov. The EEAS made an unsuccessful attempt to organise a meeting with Kozlov
Polish MEPs have filed a written inquiry with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the case of the Kazakh oppositionist Vladimir Kozlov.
Members of the European Parliament/MEPs defend Mukhtar Ablyazov and Vladimir Kozlov
Members of the European Parliament and the Polish delegation of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group sent a written question to the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Ms Federica Mogherini and the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the curr
A Zhanaozen torture victim, Maksat Dosmagambetov, needs urgent medical attention
Owing to his serious health condition, a man convicted in the Zhanaozen case, Maksat Dosmagambetov, has been transferred from prison to house arrest. He stated that he wasn’taware of his exact diagnosis, as his medical records are stored in the police department.
Soviet penal colony management methods: by lying, they report that Kozlov is a threat to inmates
From Kozlov’s evaluation, written by the head of the colony, in which the dissident is serving his time, it follows that he poses a threat to other inmates. The evaluation, which does not correspond to the truth, was used as an argument for the refusal to change the conditions of his imprisonment.
