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Kazakhstan: LiveJournal Suspends Oppositioner's Account

Written byAlexey Sidorenko
Posted 10 November 2010 8:23 GMT

LiveJournal has suspended account of Rakhat Aliev, Kazakh opposition politician and a former president Nazarbaev‘s son-in-law, LJ-user Dolboeb reports. Previously Kazakhstan blocked entire LiveJournal in order to silence Aliev. At the same time, it is the second suspicious suspension in LiveJournal – on November 3, 2010 Russian opposition blogger pilgrim_67 had been suspended, too.

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