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Press Releases
Mon, 04/26/2010
Freedom House expresses concern over the Kazakhstani Supreme Court's refusal to review the case of Yevgeniy Zhovtis. The Supreme Court's actions are particularly troubling given Kazakhstan's current OSCE chairmanship.
Mon, 08/10/2009
Freedom House denounces a Kazakhstani court decision to sentence the owner and chief editor of Alma-Ata Info newspaper to three years in prison and calls for the country's appeals court to overturn his conviction and release him immediately.