Urgent Action: Prisoner at risk of losing eyesight in Kazakhstan

Muratbek Tungishbayev risks losing sight in his left eye due to failure to provide him with necessary medical care.

Kazakhstani activist and blogger Muratbek Tungishbayev risks losing sight in his left eye due to the penitentiary authorities’ failure to provide him with necessary medical care following surgery he had on his eye. He remains held in pre-trial detention in Almaty, on politically-motivated charges and requires urgent surgery immediately in order to save his sight. Amnesty International considers Muratbek Tungishbayev to be a prisoner of conscience.

Take action

Write or email calling on authorities to: 

• Immediately and unconditionally release Muratbek Tungishbayev, as he is a prisoner of conscience held solely for peacefully exercising his rights to freedom of expression and association;
• Pending his release, immediately provide adequate medical treatment to Muratbek Tungishbayev according to the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules), Rule 27.

Contact these officials before 5 October:

Minister of Internal Affairs

Kalmukhanbet Kasymov– 010000    

Astana

Prospekt Teuelsizdik 1    

Republic of Kazakhstan    

Email: [email protected]

Salutation: Dear Minister

General Prosecutor

Kairat Kozhamzharov    

010000, Astana, Prospekt

Mangilik El 14    

Republic of Kazakhstan    

Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Salutation: Dear Prosecutor General

Director of the Penitentiary

Ruslan Dzhunusov

LA-155/18    

050045 Almaty

ul. Krasnogorskaya 73

Republic of Kazakhstan      

Email: [email protected]

Salutation: Dear Director 

With copies to: His Excellency Mr Erlan Idrissov, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 125 Pall Mall SW1Y 5EA, 020 792 51757, [email protected]