Kazakh Referendum Opponents fined for 'Burial' Protest
14.01.2011
Five activists have been fined over a protest against a proposed referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbaev's rule, in which they staged a mock "burial of democracy," RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
A Kazakh court yesterday found the five guilty of holding an unsanctioned public event and fined each the equivalent of...