Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Zhovtis (Russian: Евгений Александрович Жовтис; born 17 August 1955) is a Kazakhstan human rights activist and director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law.
After graduating as a mining engineer, he became vice president of the Independent Trade Union of Kazakhstan and represented the interests of miners, who worked under often inhumane conditions.
He also became a member of the executive board of the Civic Organisation Memorial, working for public awareness of human rights and democratic values under the repressive conditions in the USSR.
On 3 September 2009 Zhovtis was found guilty and sentenced to four years' imprisonment on charges of manslaughter.
Local and international human rights activists say the trial was flawed and used by the authorities as a convenient way to imprison him.