Journalist Fined For Libel, Again
12.11.2012
By Lukpan Akhmedyarov
A court in the city of Oral has again fined an opposition journalist for libel.
Lukpan Akhmedyarov and his employer, the Uralskaya Nedelya weekly, were ordered to pay 1.5 million tenges ($7,700) to a local finance police officer for allegedly insulting him in an article.
In July, Akhmedyarov was...