This report provides an analysis of Kazakhstan’s implementation of the European Parliament Resolution of 14 March 2019 on the human rights situation in the country (2019/2610(RSP).
Topics
- Freedom of assembly
- Death penalty
- Law enforcement and security services
- Freedom of association
- Punitive psychiatry
- Enforced disappearances
- Freedom of religion
- Schengen Information System
- War crimes
- Rule of law
- Lustration
- Financial exclusion
- Torture
- COVID-19 pandemic
- privacy rights
- Hate speech and hate crime
- Rights of soldiers and veterans
- financial rights
- Interpol
- Humanitarian aid
- FreedomTech
- Extradition
- International law
- Legal assistance
- Magnitsky Act
- Prisoners' rights
- Sanctions
- Political prisoners
- Attacks on activists
- Political refugees
- Selective justice
- Arbitrary detention
- Internally displaced people
- Judiciary independence
- Mass detention
- Expulsions and entry bans
- Persecution of lawyers
- Freedom of speech
- Fair trial
- Corruption
- Civil liberties
- Political persecution
- Polish-Ukrainian relations
Countries
- Kazakhstan
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Poland
- Moldova
- Austria
- Guatemala
- Belgium
- US
- Canada
- Great Britain
- Palestine
- Germany
- Armenia
- Italy
- Finland
- USA
- Lithuania
- Switzerland
- European Union
- Czech Republic
- Haiti
- Spain
- Estonia
- Hungary
- France
- Turkey
- Netherlands
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Ireland
- China
- Belarus
- Bulgaria
- Australia
- Egypt
- Sweden
- Uzbekistan
Topic: Torture
List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons
This report examines the cases of 56 victims of politically motivated criminal prosecutions in Kazakhstan. Among them, at least 16 are political prisoners who remain in prisons or pre-trial detention facilities.
They’ve Come For You: Misuse of Extradition Procedures and Interstate Legal Assistance
In the present document, the Open Dialogue Foundation, the Italian Federation for Human Rights, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative, the Human Rights Defenders e.V. and the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research attempt to fill the gaps in the PACE report and propose recommendations with respect to improving cooperation among the member states of the Council of Europe in the sphere of extradition.
17 U.S. senators write to Kazakh President on Yerimbetov case
Seventeen US senators wrote a letter of concern to Kazakh President Tokayev calling for the release of political prisoner Iskander Yerimbetov. The July 29 letter is a bipartisan initiative by senators Marco Rubio and Robert Menendez, with other signatories including Bernie Sanders and Tim Kaine.
The UN Universal Periodic Review of Kazakhstan for consideration at the 34th session of the UPR Working Group in November 2019
ODF, FIDU and KHISR present this Submission with recommendations within the framework of the consideration of the UPR of Kazakhstan. Over more than nine years, ODF has presented expert opinion on human rights in Kazakhstan, obtaining information from first hand and in-country experience.
They’ve come for you. Misuse of extradition procedures, unlawful expulsions and kidnappings of victims politically motivated prosecution
In international law, there is an unconditional ban on the extradition of persons to countries where they may find themselves at risk of torture and ill-treatment. Extradition requests issued on the basis of politically motivated prosecutions are also illegal.
The case of Elena Semenova: Kazakhstan’s authorities are persecuting a human rights advocate for disseminating information about torture
In July 2018 in Strasbourg, to Europarliament deputies, Elena Semenova recounted facts of mass torture in places of confinement in Kazakhstan. Upon her return to the motherland, a criminal case was initiated against the human rights advocate for “spreading knowingly false information”.
The United Nations demanded the immediate release of Iskander Yerimbetov
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has considered information about violations during the criminal prosecution of Iskander Yerimbetov. The UN concluded that Yerimbetov’s detention and arrest were arbitrary, and that criminal prosecution and trial were accompanied by gross violations
The Iskander Yerimbetov case: The trial of the Kazakhstan regime’s hostage
The Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) organised a human rights observer mission to Kazakhstan. A series of meetings with activists, human rights defenders, relatives of political prisoners, and former prisoners who had been subjected to torture, was conducted in the course of the mission.
U.S. Statement on Iskander Yerimbetov’s case
On 8 November 2018, the US Mission to the OSCE made an official statement on the case of Iskander Yerimbetov: “The United States is concerned by allegations of mistreatment while in custody and procedural irregularities in the trial of Kazakhstani businessman Iskander Yerimbetov”
Collective complaint: Be quiet! Or be charged with extremism
This report is a collective complaint on behalf of 129 citizens of Kazakhstan who have fallen victim to arbitrary detention, criminal prosecution, torture, ill-treatment, threats and surveillance. All were accused of supporting the peaceful opposition movement “Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan”.
Political prisoner Muratbek Tungishbayev goes blind in one eye. He is in need of urgent medical help
Due to the failure to provide necessary and timely medical assistance, Kazakhstani political prisoner Muratbek Tungishbayev has lost vision in one eye. He needs urgent hospitalisation.
MEP Mady Delvaux calls on Kazakhstani authorities to end political prosecution of Elena Semenova
Mady Delvaux, Member of the European Parliament, who met Kazakhstani human rights defender Elena Semenova in the European Parliament in early July, demands an end to her political prosecution.
Human rights defender Elena Semenova detained in Kazakhstan after her visit to the European Parliament
On 20 July, 2018, in Pavlodar, three police officers detained the well-known human rights activist Elena Semenova at her home. She managed to write an SMS to her colleagues saying: “I’m being taken to the Department of Internal Affairs. They came for me” .
PACE members: “Political prosecutions undermine the trust in the Kazakhstani justice system”
During the summer session of PACE, twenty-two members signed a written declaration, deploring the use of torture in detention facilities and the lack of investigation related to this systemic practice in Kazakhstan, as well as the severe violations of the right to peaceful assembly.
