Kazakh Intelligence Officer Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Beating Detainee To Death During January Protests

A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced Anet Baitursynov, a National Security Committee (KNB) officer, to 10 years in prison for beating to death 42-year-old Almas Mukashev, a resident of Taldykorgan in the southeast of the country, during protests in January last year, lawyer Berden Kadyr told RFE/RL. Another KNB officer, Andrei Sorokin, received four years of imprisonment for his "failure to report the information he heard to the authorized body." The prosecutor requested 11 years in prison for Baitursynov, and three years for Sorokin. The anti-government protests that rocked Kazakhstan last year were violently dispersed, leaving at least 238 people dead. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.