Additionally, she has published research and analysis on the role of the Internet in facilitating prostitution and trafficking and on the mail-order bride industry.

In Kazakhstan prostitution itself is legal, but acts facilitating prostitution, such as operating a brothel or prostitution ring, are illegal.

The news comes less than a week after the Cook County Sheriff's Department in Chicago sued Craigslist for facilitating prostitution.

The law criminalizes promoting the entry into or exit from the country of persons for the purpose of facilitating prostitution, as well as the prostitution of children and corruption of minors.