A court in Kazakhstan on December 20 sent an Almaty-based investigative journalist to pretrial detention for at least two months in connection with a probe into suspicious real estate deals linked to the brother of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, Bolat Nazarbaev. Kazakhstan's Bureau of Human Rights said later that journalist Mikhail Kozachkov’s rights were abused as his lawyer has not been allowed to see him. Kozachkov, an investigative journalist for the newspaper Vremya, said in May that his car had been vandalized and he was under surveillance by unknown individuals. To read the original story from RFE/RL's Kazakh Service, click here.
Kazakh Reporter Accused Of Involvement In Real Estate Deals Of Ex-President's Brother Is Placed In Pretrial Detention
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