Group of extremists convicted in Kazakhstan
AKTOBE. Aug 3 (Interfax) - The Court No 2 in the city of Aktobe, the administrative center of the Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan, has pronounced a guilty verdict to a group of eight people for the spreading of audio and video extremism-related materials in the Internet.
The court sentenced a 26-year-old Aktobe man and two of his brothers to six years in prison and another four - to five years for extremism propaganda, the press service of the regional court told Interfax on Monday.
Another man from the city of Uralsk, the administrative center in the neighboring Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaya Region, was sentenced to three years in prison for instigating social, inter-ethnic, racial or religious strife committed by a group.
The convicts will serve their sentences at general-security prisons.
The sentences have not taken effect yet, the court said.