Her name was Saltanat. How the death of one girl changed the legislation of a huge country

A Kazakhstani politician, Kuandyk Bishimbaev, first met Saltanat in Astana in September 2022. After some time, they got married according to Muslim traditions. Soon after the wedding, Kuandyk forbade his wife from talking and meeting with relatives and friends, monitored her phone calls, text messages, and whereabouts. On the evening of November 8, 2023, the couple quarreled in Astana. During the argument, Saltanat said she was tired of such a relationship and had definitively decided to leave Bishimbaev. In response, her husband began to beat her …