{"id":5930,"date":"2012-04-01T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soros.kz\/statement_on_human_rights_amnesty\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T10:09:13","slug":"statement_on_human_rights_amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/statement_on_human_rights_amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan Statement on the release of Yevgeny Zhovtis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"leftColumn\">\n<div id=\"structPageContent\">\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div class=\"published\">\n<div class=\"published\">Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan welcomes the adoption of the Law \u201c<i>On Amnesty Dedicated to the Twentieth Anniversary<\/i>\u00a0of\u00a0<i>Independence of the Republic of<\/i><i>\u00a0Kazakhstan\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and the subsequent decision by the city court number 2 of Ust-Kamenogorsk to release Yevgeniy Zhovtis.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"fullText\">\n<div id=\"fullText\">\n<p>The expected release of the prominent human rights activist will become a long-awaited event for the civil society in Kazakhstan as well as for the international community.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, this act of humanity of the government does not remove the question of uniform and fair justice for all people who found themselves in a similar situation.<\/p>\n<p>Facts of injustice and selectiveness in application of laws undermine trust among the society in the law enforcement and court systems of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the principle of equality stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan calls for transparency, impartiality and fairness of the court system in the Republic of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan welcomes the adoption of the Law \u201cOn Amnesty Dedicated to the Twentieth Anniversary\u00a0of\u00a0Independence of the Republic of\u00a0Kazakhstan\u201d\u00a0and the subsequent decision by the city court number 2 of Ust-Kamenogorsk to release Yevgeniy Zhovtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soros.kz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}