ASTANA (TCA) — The jailed former president of Kazakhstan’s uranium giant Kazatomprom, Mukhtar Dzhakishev, has been denied early release, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
A court in the northeastern city of Semei refused to grant early release to Dzhakishev on November 28, his lawyer Nurlan Beisekeev told RFE/RL.
According to Beisekeev, his client — who rights groups say is a political prisoner — served two-thirds of his 14-year term and deserves to be released on parole.
Court officials told RFE/RL that Dzhakishev was denied early release because he did not pay compensation for unspecified costs caused by the crime for which he was convicted.
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Source: The Times of Central Asia
