Acquitment of Talgat Umarov and Tamara Eslyamova is still up in air

The  Deputy of Maslikhat (West Kazakhstan Oblast) Alibek Satbaev has asked to quash acquitting judgment with regard to owner of newspaper “Uralskaya Nedelya” (“Ural's Week”) Tamara Eslyamova, journalists of its editition Talgat Umarov and lawyer Abzal Kuspanov of slander case. On April 01, 2015 he has made an appeal to Board of Appeals (West Kazakhstan Oblast Court).  

We would like to remind you, that Uralsk City Court has accepted complaint of Deputy of Maslikhat (West Kazakhstan Oblast) Alibek Satbaev. He charged newspaper publisher “Uralskaya Nedelya” (“Ural's Week”) Tamara Eslyamova, its journalist Talgat Umarov and lawyer Abzal Kuspanov with slander under article 130 of Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The private prosecutor thought, that in article “Daughter works in court, son works in prosecutor's office” which was published in the newspaper on April 17, 2014 they spread misleading information about him, concerning case over stealing of KZT15000000 (1USD=185.56). In article, there was mention of words of lawyer Abzal Kuspanov during trial, that investigative officers sheltered main suspect person Alibek Satbaev from responsibility because of influential children who worked in court and prosecutor's office.