Shocking CCTV footage shows ex-politician ‘beating his wife to death’ in eight-hour hotel attack WARNING: Confounding details
Kazakhstan court sees gruesome CCTV footage of ex-Economy Minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev beating his wife to death Saltanat Nukenova First politician seen beating his wife and CCTV footage – disturbing in Kazakhstan.
The case sparked a wider debate about domestic violence in a country where it is estimated that at least 400 women die as a result of such violence each year.
Shocking footage shows businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan’s former economy minister, beating his wife in a family restaurant. from the court and posted it online.
The issue sparked public outrage as tens of thousands of people signed a petition calling for new laws to hold criminals accountable.
The trial of Bishimbayev, 44, was the first in the country to be broadcast online – making it accessible to Kazakhstan’s 19 million people.
The former politician was famously jailed for corruption in 2018. He spent less than two years in prison for ten years before being pardoned.
