Kyrgyz Government Critic Loses Appeal Against 5-Year Prison Term
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The Chui regional court in northern Kyrgyzstan on July 15 rejected an appeal filed by government critic and journalist Oljobai Shakir (aka Egemberdiev) against the five-year prison term he was handed in mid-May on a charge of making calls online for mass unrest.