Well-known human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin in need of medical care

Kazakhstan. Urgent. Kazakhstan's prison system!

Well-known human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin is in need of medical care. He is in a very bad condition. Vadim (Вадим Курамшин) is suffering from health problems after the hunger strike (16 days) and because of the treatment in prison. He still suffers from insomnia. He is struggling for his life.











npravo.org:
http://npravo.org/archives/1177


Earlier:
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2015/07/kazakhstan.html


BBC (2010):
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-10952054
"The situation in Kazakh prisons has reached a critical point," says Vadim Kuramshin.
The system requires cardinal changes, but no-one wants to do anything about it," he said.
"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."



Kazakhstan International Bureau for human rights and rule of law (20.7.2015):
http://bureau.kz/files/bureau/sobstvennaya/2015_07/Freedom%20from%20torture_04.pdf
"In the first six months of 2015, the NGO coalitions against torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan registered 45, 98 and 20 new cases of torture and other illtreatment, respectively. Some of these cases relate to several individuals claiming to have been tortured."

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


"Abound in hope". Rom. 15:13, "prisoners of hope" Zech. 9:12









Photos of Vadim Kuramshin after and before imprisonment.