President Nazarbayev Signs Anti-Trafficking Amendments into Law

President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments into the Criminal Code expanding the legal basis for prosecuting trafficking in humans, a senior administration official announced July 10.

WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) July 12, 2003 - President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments into the Criminal Code expanding the legal basis for prosecuting trafficking in humans, a senior administration official announced July 10.

Deputy head of the presidential administration Igor Rogov said that while previously only drafting the people for the purposes of illegal sexual and/or labor exploitation was considered a crime, punishable by up to 8 years in prison, the new amendments also added the "exportation of the people for that purposes and their transit" through Kazakhstan.

According to Rogov, the Government would also revamp its inter-agency commission on fighting crimes. A new special working group will be established within the commission to analyze the situation with the human trafficking and other society ills and to draft the proposals.

Earlier in May and June, both houses of Parliament approved the amendments.

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