: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Kazakhstan labels fugitive tycoon’s political movement ‘extremist’


ASTANA (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has branded an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, as an extremist organization, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.

Astana’s Esil District Court ruled on March 13 that Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) “propagates the forcible change of Kazakhstan’s constitutional order” and thus qualifies as extremist, Prosecutor-General’s Office spokeswoman Olga Loskutova said.
A senior prosecutor, Erlan Abaev, told journalists that criminal cases had been launched against several DVK members across Kazakhstan on charges of inciting social discord and making public calls for the seizure of power.
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Source: The Times of Central Asia

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