Image: Prison. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Kazakhstan’s prison authorities were itching to get their hands on human-rights lawyer Vadim Kuramshin, who had embarrassed them inside and outside the country by exposing abuse of inmates. When Kuramshin accused prosecutors in southern Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl Province of corruption, the prison bosses got their chance. As often happens across the former Soviet Union, those who level corruption allegations often find themselves quickly facing trumped-up corruption charges of their own — and that’s what happened to Kuramshin. He ended up in prison, where he was subjected to beatings, sexual abuse and denial of medical care. Kuramshin’s …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
