The trial of Amangeldy Batyrbekov: a new expert study required

The board of appeals of the Turkestan Regional Court at its session held on  November 25 considered the expert finding made by the decision of the Saryagash District Court that found signs of insult in the journalist’s article. The author of that expert finding could not answer a number of significant questions in the second instance court. Moreover, it turned out that she was a specialist in Russian, not Kazakh philology. As a result, the court сommissioned a new forensic expert opinion of the controversial text.The next hearing is expected when the new expert study is ready, i.e., most likely,  not earlier than in three weeks.

As it was reported,  on September 23, 2019, the Saryagash district court of the Turkestan region found sentenced civil activist, editor of the newspaper Saryagash info Amangeldy Batyrbekov guilty in defamation and insult and sentenced him to two years and 3 months in prison. The victim is Bakhtiyar Abdiev, the head of the education department of the Keles region, of whom Batyrbekov  published a number of critical posts on his Facebook page.