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– Kazakh newspaper editor Zhanbolat Mamay freed but banned from journalism (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News September 11, 2017

Kazakh opposition journalist Zhanbolat Mamay was finally released but was sentenced to a three-year restriction on his movements and a three-year ban on working as a journalist after being convicted on a trumped-up money-laundering charge.
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