BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

13/07/2006

Belarus former presidential candidate Kozulin gets 5.5 years in jail

MINSK. July 13 (Interfax) - Former Belarusian presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin has been convicted and sentenced by the Minsk Moskovsky Court to five years and six months in a low-security prison camp.

Judge Aleksey Rybakov read the verdict in the presence of the lawyers and a member of a diplomatic mission. None of Mr. Kozulin's relatives was allowed in the courtroom.

Kozulin's relatives were informed about the verdict by lawyer Igor Rynkevich.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11553583

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