Click to expand Image Participants at the international Women's Day rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2022. 2022 Stanislav Beketov Saltanat Nukenova is a name that is widely recognized in Kazakhstan these days. That is because, on November 9, Saltanat's husband, Kuandyk Bishimbayev, the former economy minister, was detained in connection with her death. She was just 31 years old. Her death has sparked fresh calls for more to be done to tackle domestic abuse in Kazakhstan, which does not criminalize domestic violence as a standalone offence. Saltanat's death occurred as lawmakers are considering the "partial criminalization of repeated "battery" and "light bodily harm", offences commonly used in cases of family abuse, which were decriminalized in 2017. But these measures would not go far enough. Saltanat's death has prompted different segments of Kazakhstan society to call for the criminalization of domestic violence: a call women's righ