The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on authorities in Kazakhstan to release journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov and reform the country's laws to remove prison sentences for defamation.
On 19 January, police detained five people, including two men who allegedly were hired to execute the killing, two coordinators of the attack, and the alleged mastermind - a local education department chief, implicated by Batyrbekov in a corruption scandal.
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