Kazakhstani ex-government official sentenced for wife’s torture and murder in Central Asia

• Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court has convicted former government official Kuandyk Bishimbayev of torturing and murdering his wife.
• Bishimbayev was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday.
• The case sparked widespread public outcry, leading to calls for harsher penalties for domestic violence.

Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted a former government official of torturing and murdering his wife and sentenced him to 24 years in prison in a case that has gripped the Central Asian nation.

During the trial of…