Kazakhstan adopted a law on domestic violence

The Senate of Kazakhstan in two readings immediately adopted a law on ensuring the rights of women and the safety of children. It is also called the Domestic and Domestic Violence Act.

Now, for causing minor harm to health, the aggressor faces a fine of approximately $1,650, arrest for 50 days, or community service. For assault of moderate severity and causing serious harm to health in the family, imprisonment is implied. Murder, rape and sexual assault against a child are punishable by life imprisonment.

The reason for the adoption of the law was the high-profile case of former minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev, who brutally murdered his wife Saltanat Nukenova. According to witnesses, before the murder, Bishimbayev regularly beat his wife.

In 2017, Putin signed a law according to which violence within the family was removed from the Criminal Code. According to the current "laws" violent abusers only face administrative liability.

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