Kazakhstan: experts see political motives in media trial

ASTANA (TCA) — As a court in Astana on October 3 found Seitkazy Matayev, the head of the Kazakh Journalists Union, guilty of tax evasion and embezzlement and sentenced him to six years in prison, and his son, Aset, the director of the KazTAG news agency, was sentenced to five years on corruption charges, we are republishing this article by Aigerim Toleukhanova, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading