Kazakhstan - alarming news about well-known human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin - Police raided church on Good Friday

Kazakhstan 2016. npravo.org (news about human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin),  Forum 18 (Good Friday in Almaty, video 3:22. "People will be afraid to come to any church")

Prominent human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin (Kazakhstan) is completely isolated. He is transferred to strict conditions. The postal service does not work in either direction. In January there were provocations made by the Administration EC 164/4 (on January 4, 2016 there was a search) and now there are new provocations. His case needs public attention such as letters, requests, telegrams, phone calls to the administration of the colony. The Committee behind Вадим Курамшин also calls on all human rights associations, political organizations, and supporters to make statements and requests to the European Parliament, the government and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
We continue to "remember those who are in prison, --- and those who are mistreated..."



npravo.org: "Политзаключенный Вадим Курамшин окончательно изолирован"
http://npravo.org/archives/2028



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Forum 18: "Good Friday in Almaty":
http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2163
"On 25 March, as New Life Pentecostal Church in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty was commemorating Good Friday, police launched simultaneous raids on five church-owned buildings and the homes of six pastors and church workers, --- "We're not fraudsters," one church member told Forum 18 from Almaty following the raids. "On the contrary, we help people. We've been working here in Kazakhstan for 26 years." The church member expressed concern about widespread hostile reporting of the criminal case and raids in the local and foreign Russian-language press. "You can understand the impact this is having on children of church members, especially of the leaders, in school."

A member of another Protestant Church elsewhere in Kazakhstan expressed concern over the wider impact of the media coverage of Almaty's New Life Church. "This has an impact on all Christians across Kazakhstan," the church member told Forum 18 on 30 March. "People will be afraid to come to any church or to have anything to do with churches."


Video (3:22) from the church raid 25 March 2016 on Good Friday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAhwIxGSXNc






Foto: KL