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Kazakh Activist Jailed For Pro-Ukraine Protest

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Kazakh police speak with Makhambet Abzhan (right) outside the Russian Embassy in Astana on March 3.Kazakh police speak with Makhambet Abzhan (right) outside the Russian Embassy in Astana.A Kazakh activist has been sentenced to seven days in jail for taking part in a pro-Ukrainian protest., rferl.org reports.

Makhambet Abzhan told RFE/RL by phone that a court in Astana found him guilty on March 11 of taking part in an unsanctioned protest last week in front of the Russian Embassy.

Abzhan was one of about a dozen protesters who picketed the Russian Embassy on March 3 against Russia's occupation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Abzhan was holding a poster saying, "Yesterday, Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Today, Crimea; Tomorrow, Northern Kazakhstan."

March 17 2014, 11:33

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