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Kazachstan. Mensenrechtenactivist Vadim Kuramshin in hongerstaking
Mensenrechtenactivist Vadim Kuramshin is in hongerstaking gegaan. Vadim is advocaat en kwam op voor de rechten van gevangenen. Hij werd valselijk beschuldigd van corruptie en omkoping. In een wanhopige poging om gerechtigheid te bekomen, is Vadim in hongerstaking gegaan. Hij dringt aan op de erkenning van zijn democratische rechten nu hij al zes maanden in de gevangenis zit.
De ‘Campagne Kazachstan’ roept op om de rechtbank onmiddellijk terug bijeen te roepen om tot een uitspraak in deze zaak te komen. We eisen tevens de onmiddellijke vrijlating van Vadim en het seponeren van alle klachten tegen hem. Diegenen die Vadim op basis van valse beschuldigingen een jarenlange gevangenisstraf willen opleggen, moeten zelf ter verantwoording geroepen worden.
We roepen op om te protesteren aan de ambassade van Kazachstan en tevens bij de verantwoordelijken van de regionale rechtbank in Zhambylskaya Oblast. Hun contactgegevens zijn:
- Ambassade in België: info@kazakhstanembassy.be
- Rechtbanken in Kazachstan: hc-1@h.sud.kz en hc-16@h.sud.kz
- Stuur een kopie naar kazachstan@socialisme.be
Modelbrief in het Engels
To:
The Kazakh authorities
Judge Samat Tulesbai, presiding over the case of Vadim Kuramshin in the Zhambylskaya oblast
The Head of the Special Court for Criminal Cases in the Zhambylskaya oblast
The Head of the Criminal Court, Mr. Obydov
We have received news that Vadim Kuramshin, the human rights activist and lawyer for prisoners’ rights, falsely accused of bribery and corruption in Zhambylskaya Oblast, Kazakhstan, has started a hunger strike. This is a desperate and valiant attempt to get justice and insist on his basic democratic rights after being held in jail for six months already.
We demand that the court re-convene immediately with the jury in order to bring this case to a close.
We demand the immediate release of Vadim Kuramshin and the dropping of all charges against him.
We demand that those who have tried to sentence him to years in prison on the basis of false evidence and trumped up charges should themselves be held to account for their actions.
Please inform us on progress with these demands.
There are supporters of Campaign Kazakhstan in fifty countries on all five continents. It will make even more noise internationally if these demands are not immediately acceded to.
It will also continue to campaign against any government entering talks or any business or political relations with the Kazakhstan regime until genuine democracy is established in that country.
Yours in protest,