Kazakh court sentences ex-minister to 24 years for wife's murder

In this photo released by the Kazakhstan Supreme Court Press Office’s Telegram channel on April 12, 2024, businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the country’s former economy minister, sits in a defendants’ cage at his trial in Astana, Kazakhstan.

A court in Kazakhstan on Monday sentenced a former economy minister to 24 years in prison for the murder of his wife, in a case that led the patriarchal Central Asian nation to toughen its domestic abuse laws.