Kazakhstan Rioter Gets Death
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MOSCOW — A university student in Alma Ata was sentenced to death by firing squad and four others received jail terms for rioting in the capital of Kazakhstan republic in December, the newspaper Izvestia reported today.
The tough sentences were meted out by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan in predominantly Muslim central Asia after a three-week trial, Izvestia said. It did not say when the trial ended. The rioting Dec. 17 and 18 in Alma Ata erupted after Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the longtime native Kazakh party boss of the republic, was replaced by a Russian, Gennady Kolbin.
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