Clooney Foundation for Justice 347d ago

Kazakhstan has been misusing its extremism laws to crack down on dissent. The cases against Marat Zhylanbaev and Duman Mukhammedkarim reveal the devastating results. Today, as the UN Human Rights Council begins its review of the country’s human rights record, Kazakhstan has an opportunity to do the right thing: commit to reform its laws and reverse these convictions. CFJ has challenged the extremism laws in cases before both the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and it’s past time for Kazakhstan to address the Committee’s concern at these laws being weaponized “to unduly restrict freedoms of . . . expression, assembly and association.” Read the latest TrialWatch Fairness Reports in the cases against Zhylanbaev and Mukhammedkarim: - https://cfj.org/reports/fairness-report-marat-zhylanvaev/ - https://cfj.org/reports/fairness-report-kazakhstan-v-duman-mukhammedkarim/