Journalist convicted of Libeling Police
08.11.2011
A Kazakh journalist has received an 18-month "restricted freedom" sentence after being found guilty of libel by an Almaty court, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Valery Surganov was also ordered by the court to pay a 100,000-tenge ($665) fine, publicly apologize to "Kazakh society," and issue a "corrected version" of his article.
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