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Suspected of attack on Lukpan Akhmedyarov were taken into custody in Uralsk

19 december 2012
December 21, 2012

The Judge of City Court Galymzhan Ischanov said that four men were taken into custody on December 21, 2012 at press conference in Uralsk. They were detained on suspision of attack on journalist of the newspaper "Uralskaya Nedelya" Lukpan Akhmedyarov. Three of them have been inhabitants of adjacent villages and the last one have been from Uralsk. At present time, he is instituted by other criminal proceeding.They have been twenty four and twenty six years old. One of them has given confessions.

The other information in interests of the investigative process was not distributed.

The journalist of newspaper "Uralskaya Nedelya" Lukpan Akhmedyarov was wounded seriously in the evening outside his home on April 20, 2012. L. Akhmedyarov was attacked by at least five unidentified men, who shot him from air gun and he had stab wounds.

On May 10, 2012 four inhabitants of West Kazakhstan Oblast were detained. They were suspected in committment of attack on journalist of newspaper "Uralskaya Nedelya" Lukpan Akhmedyarov. They were Rauan Shyntasov and Sabirzhan Tairov were arrested, the other ones were released under the written pledge not to leave the town. At present time, criminal case, related to attack on journalist, it was terminated owing to the absence of elements of a crime.
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