Kazakhstan using Interpol to chase dissidents in EU - Kazakhstan prisoners' cry for help - brutal torture is used in Kazakhstan

"Kazakhstan is using Interpol, the joint police body based in Lyon, France, to wage a political vendetta in the heart of the EU. In a country ruled for the past 20 years by the same man, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, dissent is not tolerated. --- Almost all independent media have been silenced. --- To some extent, the Interpol requests are a form of PR: they try to give credibility to Kazakhstan's claims that opposition activists are criminals. --- Before giving its stamp of approval to Kazakh, Russian or Ukrainian alerts, Interpol should exercise extreme caution. Before extraditing anyone to these countries, European courts and interior ministries should think twice about the potential consequences. Kazakhstan has been repeatedly accused of using torture during interrogations and in prisons. In July this year, Amnesty International wrote: "Torture remains commonplace in Kazakhstan and the torturers are allowed to go free … Victims of government abuses and their families are still waiting for justice." International organisations have also documented its show trials and its political control of the judiciary."

euobserver.com (read the whole text):
http://euobserver.com/opinion/121311




News in Russian about human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin:
http://socialismkz.info/?p=9401




Vadim Kuramshin - summary:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2013/01/kazakhstan.html





Kazakhstan prisoners' cry for help (read this and feel ill):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10952054
"The system requires cardinal changes, but no-one wants to do anything about it," Vadim said. (Vadim tried to do something and now he is jailed). "Torture is widespread. The mechanism for lodging complaints about the actions of the prison authorities does not work at all. And there is simply no response to any of the complaints."Kuramshin was released on parole last year after serving almost four years for libel, for publishing an article in which he accused local officials of corruption. He says he was brutally treated while behind bars: "I was tortured in Atbasar prison. The same scenario continued for nine days. "In the morning about 10 prison guards would come to my cell, stretch my limbs and insert a rubber truncheon into my anus. "In the evenings, they would pour chlorinated water on my clothes and leave me in a room with a broken window. During the night every hour a loud bell would ring, making it impossible to sleep." (And now he is imprisoned again, for 12 years, because of human rights work)





Former presidential candidate Ales Michalevic (Belarus) having problems with Interpol:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2013/08/former-presidental-candidate-persecuted.html



Photo: familjen Lindén

Hebr. 13:3   "Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body."