The case against Vadim Kuramshin’s twelve year prison sentence fell on deaf ears in Kazakhstan’s highest court, Monday 25 November. The three judges remained impervious to the pleas of Vadim’s two lawyers and his mother. His representatives blew holes in the prosecution’s arguments and the court’s decision to overturn a unanimous jury’s verdict that Vadim is innocent. Vadim’s family is bitterly disappointed but determined not [...]
A life and death campaign is being conducted by housing campaigners who have taken to the dangerous road of a hunger strike protest. They are fighting attempts by the authorities in Kazakhstan to evict people who are burdened with housing debts that they cannot afford to repay and who, with their families, have nowhere else [...]
Fight forced evictions from only homes! Campaign Kazakhstan has received an appeal from housing campaigners for international support. At present several dozen people are refusing to take food in protest at the Nazarbayev government refusing to stop banks evicting them from their only homes. United Nations Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, who was recently in Britain pointing [...]
It has been confirmed this morning that that the case against Vadim Kuramshin will be reviewed in Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court on 25 November. All those believing he has been cruelly wronged by being sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on trumped up charges will welcome this news. Hopefully, the highest authorities have been affected by the [...]
No hunger strike…at this stage Vadim Kuramshin has decided not to go ahead with a hunger strike planned for 5 November (see article below). His mother told Campaign Kazakhstan, this morning (31 October) that he has been visited in prison by leading prosecutors who informed Vadim that his case will be heard very soon at the [...]
