Kazakh court upholds Pavlyuk killers’ conviction

    An Almaty city court February 10 upheld the conviction of three men in the 2009 Almaty murder of Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
    In October, ex-Kyrgyz security service agent Aldayar Ismankulov and Kazakhstani citizens Almas Igilikov and Shalqar Orazalin were sentenced to 17, 10 and 11 years, respectively.
    The defendants’ lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
    Pavlyuk was lured to Almaty and thrown, bound hand and foot, from the sixth floor of a building. He died six days later, Central Asia Online said.