In Almaty, hieromonk Yakov Vorontsov was sentenced to four years in a penal colony
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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