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Administrative Code Article 342 for alleged violations of the law on mass media; namely, the Almaty City Council claimed that the newspaper had changed its thematic focus but failed to register the change with the government. The newspaper faced a
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three years. However, the Taraz
District Court #2 then decided to charge Yesergepov under Part 4 of the same article instead, meaning that he could face up to eight years in prison. In August 2009 he was sentenced to three years in prison; the
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stated in response that no OSCE member state had complained to his ministry over the matter, and that
Kazakhstan had a "healthy media environment" run primarily by private companies rather than state bodies.
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