Judge Zhasulan Khusainov of Court No. 2 in Almaty’s Medeu District sentenced hieromonk Yakov Vorontsov to four years in a penal colony in a drug possession case. Of the six years imposed, the court applied an amnesty announced by the Kazakh authorities on the occasion of the adoption of the new Constitution; the defense intends to appeal the sentence.

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Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev, who faces extradition to Russia, attempted to take his own life for the second time, the Russian Anti-War Committee said. This happened shortly after his hospitalization in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on September 15 following the first suicide attempt in a pretrial detention center.

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