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When May began, Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakhstan's ambassador to Vienna, was the crown prince of the energy-abundant central Asian nation. He was married to the favorite daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whom the country's newly rewritten constitution now allows to stay on as President for life if...
But the morning after Nazarbayev signed the constitutional amendments that gave him unbounded power, law enforcers brought kidnapping charges against Aliyev. "The head of state," said a Ministry of the Interior spokesman, "personally instructed" officials to conduct the investigation that concluded with the criminal charges of kidnapping, with a penalty...
Whenever anyone begins volunteering at the Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA), one of the first forms you have to complete is a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) request form. PBHA and other volunteer organizations and employers use CORIs to screen applicants to protect the populations which they serve from potentially...
By definition, guest workers are tremendously vulnerable. And of all the steps in the process, none is more ripe for abuse than the recruiting of workers back in their home countries. Baldemar Velasquez, whose Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) has been the union representing Eury's workers since 2004, says...
Such ostentation is rare these days, since any display of wealth is likely to attract the attention of criminal gangs and kidnappers. Besides, mourning has itself become potentially deadly: Sunni suicide bombers have been known to target Shi'ite wakes, and Shi'ite militias have attacked Sunni funeral processions. So...