Human Rights Watch: A Domestic Violence Case Goes to Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court
October 21, 2020
October 21, 2020
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
Gulzhan Pasanova could spend 10 years in prison because in defending herself from her abusive husband, he died. On October 22, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan will consider her case on appeal.
In November 2019, Pasanova's husband, accusing her of having an affair, threatened her with a knife. Gulzhan hit her husband with a metal pole in self defense. She called for help for her husband, but he di . . .
Gulzhan Pasanova could spend 10 years in prison because in defending herself from her abusive husband, he died. On October 22, the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan will consider her case on appeal.
In November 2019, Pasanova's husband, accusing her of having an affair, threatened her with a knife. Gulzhan hit her husband with a metal pole in self defense. She called for help for her husband, but he di . . .