Kazakhstan's living Gulags - concentration camps - life under the Nazarbayev dictatorship 2013 - oil trade or human rights?

Kazakhstan (save Vadim Kuramshin)

Freedom of speech - for the truth. West's double standards.

"Why do punishments from a bygone era still persist?" 






(Aug. 2013, BBC video 26:30)
http://zhuye.asia/iplayer/episode/p01dvcxd/Assignment_Kazakhstan_s_Living_Gulags/
"Kazakhstan was once home to the infamous Soviet forced labour camps which formed part of the Gulag. Today’s prison regime seems to be stuck in the country’s Soviet past, as inmates and human rights groups say there is widespread practise of daily torture and humiliation. Despite its poor human rights record, many developed nations, including Britain, are rapidly strengthening relations with oil rich Kazakhstan. BBC Central Asia Correspondent Rayhan Demytrie investigates echoes of the Gulag system in prisons today and finds out why punishments from a bygone era still persist."


Campaigne Kazakhstan (text/picture) Aug. 22, 2013:
http://campaignkazakhstan.org/index.php/2013/08/22/kazakhstans-living-gulags/
In sometimes graphic detail, it confirms the material we have carried previously on this site, especially that of Vadim Kuramshin, a human rights lawyer who has spoken out courageously against such atrocities. Like lawyers mentioned in this broadcast, Vadim himself has been put behind bars. At present he languishes in a penal colony, sentenced to twelve years on trumped up charges, even after the case against him was dismissed unanimously by a jury.


Prisons and Gulags - gallery - Kazakhstan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01f1139


Mukhtar Dzhakisev: Kazakhstan's living Gulags (text)
http://www.dzhakishev.org/kazakhstans-living-gulags-bbc-radio-4/


Human rights defender and lawyer Vadim Kuramshin wrongly imprisoned for 12 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaeNUbmEVM

- Vadim Kuramshin made protests against torture and abuse. He cried on a dinner when someone asked him about torture and he went home...He was taken by the security police right from his home. Free media is closed in Kazakhstan and the repression of human rights needs our attention. Vadim was thankful for help. He still is. Amos 5:24 Lord, "let justice roll down like waters!" Don't forget him. 


Vadim Kuramshin is ready to go on hunger-strike:
http://www.kuramshyn.org/blog/2013-10-06-298


Vadim Kuramshin awarded:
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/23108  


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




http://gulaghistory.org/






Photo: KL  
2 Chron. 32:8a 
"We Christians should have the sure knowledge that the princes of heaven are with us, [and] not only one or two, but a large number of them as Luke records (2.13) that a multitude of heavenly host was with the shepherds. And if we were without this custody, and God did not in this way check the fury of Satan, we could not live for one moment." [What Luther Says, Š64]"