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Pre-trial hearings on Bigelgy Gabdullin’s case are called for 11 January in Astana.

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Kazakhstan users could not access Facebook, Google, Instagram, Youtube and other social networks. According to the Ministry of information and communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan it was caised by emergency failure at telecommunications networks.

The сourt considered sharing others' posts in social networks to be incitement of religious and national hatred and sentenced internet user Ruslan Ginatullina to 6 years of imprisonment in maximum security penal colony.

The Appeal Board dismissed the complaint of Matayevs and their advocates

The convicts were not brought to court. As Matayev's lawyer Madina Bakieva said, according to the Criminal Procedure Code convicts should be delivered to court for appeal hearings in case of prosecutor's demand to increase punishment or in case of examination of evidence. As Mrs.Bakieva supposed, the court did not consider the presence of Matayevs necessary.