What stands behind Central Asia’s ugly problem with domestic violence

The authorities’ reluctance and indifference cost women lives and wellbeing

Originally published on Global Voices

Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who killed his wife Saltanat Nukenova, sitting in court in Astana, Kazakhstan. Screenshot from the video “«Шесть с половиной часов она меня мучила»: Бишимбаев рассказал, за что мстил Салтанат” from Informburo 31‘s YouTube channel. Fair use.

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