ALMATY (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has imposed house arrest on a woman who is suspected of giving financial backing to an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
The court ordered house arrest for Aqmaral Tobylova, a resident of Almaty, on March 15. Relatives said that Tobylova, 28, is pregnant.
Tobylova was detained on March 13, the day a separate court ruled that Ablyazov’s Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) is an extremist group, saying it “propagates the forcible change of Kazakhstan’s constitutional order.”
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Source: The Times of Central Asia
