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– Kyrgyzstan court defies UN ruling, upholds unjust conviction of rights defender (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 25, 2017

A Kyrgyzstan court upheld a life sentence for human rights defender Azimjon Askarov, despite the UN Human Rights Committee's ruling that he should be released and his conviction quashed.
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