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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Kazakhstan jails peaceful protesters for five years after demonstration ‘displeases’ China

Kazakhstan has sent 19 people to jail for participating in a peaceful protest against human rights abuses in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region.

A court in Taldykorgan, a town about 260km north of Almaty, found all the defendants guilty of “inciting interethnic or social discord” for staging protests in November last year.

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