RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Autor): „Kazakh Activist Gets Jail Term For Alleged Insurrection“, Dokument #1098403

Kazakh Activist Gets Jail Term For Alleged Insurrection

By RFE/RL's Kazakh Service

October 08, 2012

AQTAU, Kazakhstan -- Kazakh opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in jail, while two co-defendants avoided jail time with suspended sentences for their suspected roles in an allegedly insurrectionist group.

Opposition activists Serik Saparghali and Aqzhanat Aminov received suspended sentences of four and three years in prison, respectively.

All three were found guilty on October 8 of forming and leading an illegal group, inciting social hatred, and calling for the violent overthrow of Kazakhstan's constitutional order.

The charges were connected to a mass strike by oil workers in the country's west that sparked violence in December 2011, when 17 people were killed, most of them in the town of Zhanaozen in a clash with police.

Kozlov, the 52-year-old leader of the unregistered Algha! (Forward!) opposition party, says the case is politically motivated.

ecoi.net-Beschreibung:: Oppositionsführer Wladimir Koslow wurde zu 7.5 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt; 2 Mitangeklagte, die Oppositionsaktivisten Serik Saparghali und Aqzhanat Aminow, erhielten eine Bewährungsstrafe über 4 und 3 Jahre für ihre Beteiligung an einem mutmaßlichen Umsturzversuch während des Gewaltausbruchs in Schanaosen im Dezember 2011
Land:: Kasachstan
Quelle:: RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Autor)
Originallink:: http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakh-activists-kozlov-jail-sentence-alleged-insurrection/24732776.html
Dokumentart:: Medienbericht
Sprache:: Englisch
Veröffentlicht:: 8. Oktober 2012
Dokument-ID:: 1098403 (frühere ID 228428)