News about well-known human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin

Kazakhstan. "Torture is widespread."


"Today (January 30) Вадим Курамшин was urgently transferred to the medical unit due to acute illness. He is tormented by constant back pain caused by sciatica and he is also suffering from constant insomnia."

http://www.elbacity.press/news/127-politzaklyuchennyy-vadim-kuramshin-gospitalizirovan.html


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Old news - read! Kazakhstan prisoners' cry for help:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-10952054
"The situation in Kazakh prisons has reached a critical point," says Vadim Kuramshin, a former prisoner who is now a human rights activist.

"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."