Rights activists in Kazakhstan have called for the release of newspaper editor Ramazan Yesergepov who was detained last week for allegedly publishing confidential state correspondence in a November issue of his small-circulation weekly in Almaty, Alma-Ata Info. Yesergepov, 52, has been on hunger strike his arrest. The case comes as Kazakhstan prepares to assume the rotating chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. (Via Moscow Times)
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