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KAZAKHSTAN: Rights Activists Urge Halt to Zhanaozen Trial amid Torture Claims
- Inter Press Service
An attempt to render justice is quickly turning into a PR debacle for Kazakhstan. Troubling allegations that torture was employed to obtain incriminating statements is engulfing the trial of 37 individuals accused in connection with a deadly riot last December in the western oil town of Zhanaozen.
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