Please help
Dear Illumination:
I was very pleased and honored that you not only published, but curated, my article Kazakhstan. I told my wife about the article before submitting, but yesterday our daughter went to a demonstration there and was later picked up and interrogated by security forces.
My wife is understandably worried that raising our profile might create more problems for our daughter. So please change the photo illustration for the photo here, and remove one sentence that mentions my wife from the paragraph below. If for some reason these changes aren’t possible, I hope you can delete the article completely. Here is the substitute paragraph:
The government is less voracious than others in the region, giving citizens hospitals, roads, and schools. Even so, very few Kazakhs taste the wealth garnered by multinational corporations and hoarded by its small elite class.
I am very sorry about asking you to do this, but I’m sure you can see our position. I apologize for the trouble and thank you for anything you can do,
John Couper
