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Kazakstan - Amnesty International |
 | | One opposition leader was pardoned and released from prison; another continued to serve a long prison sentence. |
 | | In April Mukhtar Ablyazov, one of two imprisoned leaders of the main opposition Democratic Choice of Kazakstan (DVK) movement, appealed to President Nazarbayev for clemency. |
 | | His trial, according to international observers, fell far short of international fair trial standards and may have been politically motivated. |
| web.amnesty.org /report2004/kaz-summary-eng (505 words) |