Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court has denied jailed opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov a review of his controversial trial and imprisonment, a case widely condemned as legally flawed and politically motivated.  
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HRF calls once again on Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbayev to stop the government crackdown on independent media outlets in the country. The request is based on a legal report that HRF released today on the case of a group of independent media outlets banned by the government following their critical coverage of a 2011 labor strike in the town of Zhanaozen, where police killed at least 15 protesters and injured more than 100.  
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Kazakhstan's Supreme Court has refused to review the case of jailed opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov.  
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The court case against well known opposition activist Vladimir Kozlov and civil activists Serik Sapargali and Akjanat Aminov continues in Aktau. The case began on 16 August, with nine witnesses questioned between 16 and 21 August, however none of them confirmed the accusations of inciting social upheaval, calls for forced regime change and organisation of a crime gang.  
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Kazakhstan’s prosecutors asked a court to ban as extremist opposition groups and media outlets including the Alga party after its leader Vladimir Kozlov was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for fomenting violence.  
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On November 19 an appeals court in Aktau upheld the Aktau City Court's ruling sentencing Vladimir Kozlov to seven and a half years in prison. The court's ruling upheld the prosecutor's request to uphold the lower court's judgment without providing any grounds or argumentation.  
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The United States on Tuesday accused Kazakhstan of using its justice system to "silence opposition voices" after a prominent critic of President Nursultan Nazarbayev was jailed for inciting violence.  
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The United States has expressed its concern about the sentence given to Vladimir Kozlov, leader of Kazakhstan opposition party Alga! (Forward!), who has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for inciting social upheaval by the court of Aktau.  
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An outspoken critic of Kazakhstan's veteran president was jailed for seven-and-a-half years on Monday for colluding with a fugitive billionaire in a failed attempt to rally oil workers to bring down the government.  
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The leader of an unofficial opposition party in Kazakhstan has been jailed for seven and a half years for attempting to overthrow the government.  
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