ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced three men to lengthy prison terms in a case that prosecutors said was linked to a political movement founded by a fugitive tycoon, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
The court in Almaty on December 21 found Kenzhebek Abishev, Oralbek Omirov, and Almat Zhumaghulov guilty of disseminating terrorism. Zhumaghulov was also found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred.
Prosecutors alleged that the three, who were arrested in November 2017, planned a holy war by spreading the ideas of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, an organization that has been branded a terrorist group by Kazakh authorities …read more
Source: The Times of Central Asia
