A court in Kyrgyzstan sentenced a prominent rights activist, Azimzhan Askarov, to life imprisonment on charges of organizing inter-ethnic clashes and mass disorders. Askarov, an Uzbek by ethnic origin, was charged with organizing clashes in June of this year that resulted in, among other things, the murder of a policeman. Kyrgyz ombudsman, Tursunbek Akun, called the charges trumped up, and criticized the judgment as "unreasonable".
http://lenta.ru/articles/2010/09/17/jail/
Friday, September 17, 2010
Rights Activist Gets Life Sentence in Kyrgyzstan
Labels:
_Human Rights,
_Violence,
Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan
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