UN Torture Rapporteur visits Prisons in Central Kazakhstan

    Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, visited several penitentiaries in central Kazakhstan this week, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.     Between May 4 and May 11, at the government's invitation, Nowak visited several detention centers and labor camps in the towns of Vishnevka, Dolinka, and Qarabas, places well-known to millions of...