The court has streamed horrifying video of billionaire Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the former minister of economy for Kazakhstan, hitting his wife at a family restaurant.
Tens of thousands of people have signed petitions demanding new legislation to hold abusers accountable, indicating that the case has stirred popular anger.
The 44-year-old Bishimbayev’s trial is the first to be streamed live online in Kazakhstan, making it easily available to the nation’s 19 million citizens.
The ex-politician was already well-known because of her 2018 bribery conviction. Before being pardoned, he served less than two years of his ten-year term in prison.
