ALMATY (TCA) — A European delegation has met with inmates in Kazakhstan whom rights activists consider political prisoners in the tightly controlled Central Asian country, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
The delegation led by Polish lawmaker Marcin Swiecicki and the president of the Italian League for Human Rights, Antonio Stango, met on April 16 with jailed businessman Iskander Erimbetov and civil rights activists Almat Zhumaghulov and Kenzhebek Abishev.
Swiecicki and Stango told journalists that Erimbetov told them he had been tortured in custody.
Erimbetov was arrested in November 2017 and charged with involvement in money laundering by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive Kazakh tycoon and …read more
Source: The Times of Central Asia
