The criminal law of Kazakhstan will be reformed, which will result in the decrease in a number of articles which require imprisonment. Almaty has witnessed a round table discussion, where judges, prosecutors, attorneys and lawyers were talking about liberalization of the legal law.

Kairat Mami, Prosecutor General of RK
“We are to decriminalize a number of social crimes and transfer them in to the status of administrative infringements. We are to decrease the term of imprisonment or to exclude this kind of sanction.”

Criminal proceedings are aimed at the fight against crime and usually the protection of rights of individuals is on the second place. That is why it is important to develop effective mechanisms on observance of rights and freedoms of people. Moreover, such principles as “the protection of the aggrieved person is in priority” should be established.

Musabek Alimbekov, chairman, Supreme Court of RK
“Judicial systems must provide effective protection of people, who suffered from crimes. We should keep in mind that criminals both violated the article of a law and rights of the law-abiding person.”

Attendees of the meeting noted that new system should be completely different. It is necessary to modernize all frameworks of reference and make the principle of unavoidability of punishment work. The new system should also be humane.

Additionally, it is planned to revise the policy with regard to people, who have already discharged the term of sentence and improve social guarantees. In order to implement it, the ministry of labour and social security is developing a corresponding draft.

Gulshara Abdykalikova, minister for labour and social security of RK
“We should join efforts of state bodies and social partners for their self-realization, provide equity in all spheres of life, including social, labour and family relations and provide them with privileges. Labour collectives should establish work on the ban for any forms of discrimination.”

The chairman of the Constitutional Council Yuriy Rogov, paid attention to the fact that there is not any country of the world, which hasn’t violated human rights at all and that is why it is necessary to judge by the legal system not by separate cases but by the reaction on them.